Éamoin de Buitléar R.I.P.

Lapin

Died peacefully at his home this evening according to RTÉ News.

R.I.P.

washiskin

Ah no! :(
I loved his wildlife programmes and he always did the loveliest voice overs ás gaeilge.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a h-ainm deilís.

Kristopherus

Saw that. RIP to a great musician, naturalist and TV personality of yore.

Stheno

RIP always came across as a lovely person.

mobby

RIP. A Gentleman.

reality19

& a scholar R. I.P

grey_so_what

Childhood memories spring to mind from RTE's nature programs......All happy!

Rest in Peace.

jjf1974

Rest in peace Eamon.
One of our finest film makers,musician and politican.
I hope Rte show some of his programmes in the future.

mike65

Always a date in our house when he was on Radio Telefis Eireann, another one of those unassuming talents that RTE managed to find a place for - Gerrit van Gelderen and David and Sally Shaw-Smith (Hands) being others.

JP Liz V1

RIP

Lady Chatterton

mike65 wrote: »

Always a date in our house when he was on Radio Telefis Eireann, another one of those unassuming talents that RTE managed to find a place for - Gerrit van Gelderen and David and Sally Shaw-Smith (Hands) being others.

And Dick Warner too

RIP Éamon



Last week, I heard an nice interview with Éamon on Radio 1's Arts Tonight programme. The podcast can be found here.

Éamon very kindly donated over 60 years of his work to NUI Galway last year. It is great that his papers, film, animations, music and audio recordings will be there for future generations to study and enjoy.

The Éamon de Buitléar Archive is an exceptional and unique collection of multimedia material which reflects an outstanding body of work spanning some sixty years.

The Archive consists of various media including papers, scripts and manuscripts, animation, film and video, music and audio recordings, books and broadcast equipment.

The primary themes of the collection are film-making, the environment, traditional music and material relating to the de Buitléar family. Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge and the James Hardiman Library will digitise and manage the archive to facilitate access by researchers, students and the Gaeltacht community in the National University of Ireland, Galway.

http://www.nuigalway.ie/eamon-de-buitlear-archive-launch/

grey_so_what

What a lovely legacy to leave behind him!...

Thanks for a really nice post MrsD......I didn't know that.

feargale

He will be greatly missed. He was on tv only about a week ago - dunno if that was recorded or not. He told a very funny story on radio once about when he had a pet shop in central Dublin, and the comments of the ould wans on the hairstyle of a monkey he had. Anybody remember?

fryup

an absolute gentleman by all accounts and great man for storytelling as his appearances on the late late show were testament to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEBAeIcYwsk