Biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan

Rev. Luke Donnellan
Given name:	Luke
Middle name:
Family name:	Donnellan
Place of birth:	Lower Creggan, Crossmaglen, County Armagh, Ireland
Place of death:	Newry, County Down, Ireland
Year of birth:	1878
Year of death:	1952
Profile:	Collector, Composer, Musician
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REV. LUKE DONNELLAN (1878-1952). Luke Donnellan was a cleric and curate in several parishes in the Dioceses of Armagh. The parish of Loughgall, County Armagh, was his final posting, where he was the administrator. He was a highly regarded cleric by his parishioners, if mild mannered, scholarly and slightly eccentric. He was also a fiddler, collector of Irish music and author and co-author of scholarly articles on the subject. However, the music manuscript that bears his name was probably not his own. Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor believes Donnellan "...was not the original author of this manuscript and that the collection itself had been the work of an unknown, able, traditional musician, probably a fiddle player, transcribed over the musician's lifetime.

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