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S:Michael B. Shanahan
S:P.D. Reidy music manuscript collection, London, 1890’s (No. 29)
N:”Professor” Patrick Reidy of Castleisland was a dancing
N:master engaged by the Gaelic League in London to teach
N:dance classes. He introduced “Siege of Ennis” and “Walls
N:of Limerick” ceili dances and wrote a treatise on dancing.
N:Reidy told O’Neill that his source, Shanahan was a “celebrated
N:violinist”, the son of a piper born in Kilrush, Co. Clare, with a
N:great reputation in Kerry and Limerick in the 1860’s. It is unclear
N:where Shanahan was in relation to his acquaintance with Reidy
N:(i.e. in London or Ireland).
F: http://rarebooks.library.nd.edu/digital/bookreader/MSE_1434-1/#page/1/mode/1up
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
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T:Reel [75]
T:Miss Thornton’s,
T:Coming through the Fields
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L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (Book 2, c. 1883, No. 203, p. 43)
B: http://grier.itma.ie/book-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=42&z=77.5046%2C80.9365%2C3642.9138%2C1476.2303
N:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a piper and fiddler from
N:Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Co. Leitrim.
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