Ó Catháin left Ireland for work and set down in Leeds, West Yorkshire where he lived out the rest of his life.
Ó Catháin was born on 30 September 1922 at Maimin, Lettermore, Connemara seventh in a family of twelve children.
In the intervening years Ó Catháin released another recording, Traditional Irish Unaccompanied Singing (1975).
He won the "Best sean-nós singer" in Ireland in 1967 at the Oireachtas competitions and won the Ó'Riada Trophy When the Kane family sold their family home and moved to Leeds they were beginning an experiment that would not prove a total success but the Kanes are still in Leeds.
Bridie (15) and Monica (9) recall their early days in Leeds, their sense of dislocation – at loss in a language they had little knowledge of and the love they had for their father and his musical inheritance.
This can be viewed for 35 days after transmission on the channel's Webcast website www.tg4.tv (then select Ceol Cartlann and the programme is called Cerbh E (in Irish with English subtitles).