Eamon Carr has been a significant figure in the Irish artistic and cultural scene for many years. 

In the late 1960s he co-founded Tara Telephone, the music and poetry group of the Dublin beat scene.

Tara Telephone published everyone from Marc Bolan to Allan Ginsberg, Brian Patten, Seamus Heaney, Pearse Hutchinson, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Brendan Kennelly, Adrian Mitchell, Pete Brown in their magazines and broadsheets. The group also ran recitals.  Among those who read with Tara Telephone, in addition to Eamon and Peter Fallon were Phil Lynott and Roger McGough.  With Jim Fitzpatrick, the group also produced specially designed posters with artwork and poems combined.  One of these posters with Eamon's poem ‘A Tale of Love’ was exhibited in the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era Exhibition in 2005 which also toured in Germany and Austria.

Following on from Tara Telephone, in the 1970's Eamon co-founded Horslips, the hugely
influential band which is credited with creating the musical genre known as Celtic Rock, and in which he is also a drummer, conceptualist and lyricist.  Eamon has also promoted musicians and
artists, and works as a journalist, writer and commentator on culture, politics, arts, music and sport as well as an award winning broadcaster

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