BIOGRAPHY

Writer, musician, art historian, Eamon Carr’s artistic career began when, inspired by the Liverpool Scene, he set up the Tara Telephone collective with Peter Fallon in 1969.  

The group organised poetry workshops and published the small press Capella magazine, Book of Invasions broadsheet and began a series of collections under the Gallery Books imprint. The group also gave recitals and toured extensively. One of Eamon’s initiatives was to team up with Che Guevara poster artist Jim Fitzpatrick for a series of poem posters. One of these, A Tale of Love, was included in the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era Exhibition in 2005, which later toured to Vienna and Frankfurt. 

In 1971, Eamon moved on to co-found Horslips, the pioneering folk-rock group in which he is lyricist and drummer. The group’s most recent release is More Than You Can Chew, a box-set of 33 albums. 

His work includes  

The Origami Crow: Journey into Japan, World Cup Summer 2002 (Seven Towers)  

Deirdre Unforgiven, A Journal of Sorrow (Doire Press). 

DUSK, a verse drama, was staged in Dublin at the GPO and the New Theatre in 2016 by Red Iron Productions with Garrett Lombard, Caoimhe Mulcahy, Denis Conway and Justine Doswell.  

CúChulainn Awakes, a short verse drama directed by Killian Ginnity, produced by Andy Cummins and filmed remotely during lockdown in 2020, with Garrett Lombard, Denis Conway, Olwen Fouéré and Denis Clohessy, featured in the St Patrick’s Festival 2022 and other arts events.  

A journalist and broadcaster, he presented Seeking Refuge, an exhibition of his photography documenting life in refugee camps on the Kosovo-Albania border in 1999, with music by Ken O’Duffy, as part of the Festival of Politics (2019). 

In 2010, his five-poem cycle Ascension: Ireland was staged in the Walled Garden of the Pearse Museum by multi-media artist Daniel Figgis. 

Artists whose work he brought to general release, through independent record labels he supervised, include Philip Chevron's The Radiators from Space, Agnes Bernelle, Light A Big Fire, The Golden Horde and the Stars of Heaven among others. His poetry and lyrics have been recorded by a number of musicians including Henry McCullough, Eamonn Dowd and Mike Brookfield.  

 A former recipient of the Sarah Purser Scholarship (The History of European Painting) at Trinity College, Dublin, he is a widely-published commentator on culture, arts and sport.