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The album was named the year's top traditional album by The Irish Times. [3] Canny died on 28 June 2008. He was predeceased by his wife, Philomena, and was survived by his daughters, Mary and Rita. A nephew, Martin Hayes, has captured the All Ireland fiddle championship six times and continues to record and perform traditional Irish music. [3]
Máire Breatnach (Irish pronunciation: [ˈmˠɑːɾʲə ˈbʲɾʲan̪ˠəx]) is an Irish fiddle, violin and viola player. She also sings in Irish on some of her albums. Since the early 1990s, she has recorded five solo albums, participated in many collaborations, and developed didactic material for children, mostly in Irish.
Hurling and Gaelic football have been played in North America ever since Irish immigrants began landing on North American shores. The earliest games of hurling in North America were played in St. John's, Newfoundland in 1788, [2] and there are records of football being played in Hyde Park (now the site of the Civic Center) in San Francisco as early as the 1850s.
James Kelly (Irish: Séamus Ó Ceallaigh; born 1957) is an Irish fiddler, composer, collector, researcher and teacher from Dublin. [1] [2] He is the son of County Clare fiddler, John Kelly, and has played with various groups including Patrick Street and Planxty. [1]
Paddy Glackin was born on 5 August 1954 in Clontarf, Dublin. [1] His father, Tom Glackin, was an officer with the Garda Síochána in Dublin and a notable fiddle player who instilled in Paddy a deep interest and love of the music of his native County Donegal, and taught him and his brothers Kevin and Seamus to play the instrument.
Ivers was born in New York City of Irish-born parents, grew up in the Bronx and attended St. Barnabas High School. [1] She spent summers in Ireland and took up the fiddle at the age of nine. Her teacher was the Irish fiddler Martin Mulvihill. [2] She toured with Mick Moloney's band The Green Fields of America, founded in 1977.
Reference to the Irish fiddle can also be found in John Dunton's Teague Land: or A Merry Ramble to the Wild Irish (1698) he says “on Sundays and Holydays, all the people resorted with the piper and fiddler to the village green" Thomas Dineley visited Ireland in 1680 he says in regards to music "with piper, harper, or fidler, revell and dance ...
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