The lecture comprises a brief look back at the 20 years (to the month) of the two archival television series of Irish traditional music Come West along the Road on RTÉ and Siar an Bóthar on TG4, series which Nicholas Carolan compiled, scripted, presented, edited etc throughout their 1994 to 2014 run. They are the longest running tv series on Irish music of any kind, and they had a live audience of 250,000 and also a world-wide viewership on the station online players. The film clips will concentrate on traditional music of the east coast and will include material of Drogheda connection.

Nicholas Carolan, from Drogheda, Co Louth, is Director Emeritus of the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin, of which he was the founder-director from 1987 to 2015. A former Hon. Secretary of the Folk Music Society of Ireland and lecturer on Irish traditional music in the School of Music, Trinity College Dublin, he is a researcher and writer and frequent lecturer on traditional music, but is best known as the presenter of the long-running archival television series Come West along the Road on RTÉ and Siar an Bóthar on TG4. His publications include an edition of A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes of 1724, A Short Discography of Irish Folk Music, A Harvest Saved: Francis O'Neill and Irish Music in Chicago, the CDs Seoltaí Séidte 1–2, and the DVDs Come West along the Road 1–4.

Is Stiúrthóir Emeritus é Nicholas Carolan ar Thaisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann i mBaile Átha Cliath, eagraíocht a raibh sé ina stiúrthóir bunaidh air ó 1987 go dtí 2015. Is as Droichead Átha, Co Lú, dó. Bhí sé ina Rúnaí Oinigh ar Chumann Cheol Tíre Éireann agus ina léachtóir ar an gceol dúchais i gColáiste na Tríonóide BÁC, ach is fearr aithne air mar láithreoir na sraitheanna cartlainne teilifíse Come West along the Road ar RTÉ agus Siar an Bóthar ar TG4. I measc an méid a chuir sé i gcló tá eagrán de A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes as 1724, A Short Discography of Irish Folk Music, A Harvest Saved: Francis O'Neill and Irish Music in Chicago, na dlúthdhioscaí Seoltaí Séidte 1–2, agus na DVDanna Come West along the Road 1–4.