Treasa Ní Cheannabháin (born 1953) is a notable Irish singer in the sean-nós tradition. She was born in Cill Chiaráin in Carna, Conamara, an

Irish-speaking Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenous ...

area. In 1996 Treasa and daughter

Róisín Elsafty Róisín Elsafty (born in Connemara, Ireland) is a singer in the Sean-nós singing, sean-nós tradition. She is a native speaker of Irish language, Irish. She comes from a musical family, being the daughter of Treasa Ní Cheannabháin, one of th ...

released an album on the French label Musique du Monde label entitled ''L'art du sean-nós''.

Activism

In 2008 she slipped across the Egyptian border into

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with her daughter

Naisrín Elsafty Naisrín Elsafty (born 1989) is an Irish-Egyptian singer and surgeon. She is notable as a distinguished exponent of sean-nós singing, an unaccompanied and heavily ornamented style characteristic of the Irish-speaking area where she grew up. Ea ...

and a niece in order to distribute €7,700 collected by the Galway-Palestinian Children's Fund. They were arrested and briefly detained, and Treasa's husband had his passport confiscated to prevent him helping Treasa to leave.

References

1953 births 20th-century Irish women singers 21st-century Irish women singers Living people Musicians from County Galway Sean-nós singers {{Ireland-singer-stub