Various, mummers [negative] / Joe Dowdall
- JDO-18751/1/272511
- Unidad documental simple
- October 1977
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Unidentified man, seated in costume
Creation Location:
Drogheda Mummers and Wren Boys Festival
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Various, mummers [negative] / Joe Dowdall
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Unidentified man, seated in costume
Creation Location:
Drogheda Mummers and Wren Boys Festival
Unidentified musician playing mouth organ [negative] / Joe Dowdall
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Unidentified man, seated playing mouth organ
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Drogheda Mummers and Wren Boys Festival
Tom Munnelly [negative] / Joe Dowdall
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Tom Munnelly, standing at microphone
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Drogheda Mummers and Wren Boys Festival
Gerry O'Connor ; and others [negative] / Joe Dowdall
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Gerry O'Connor, seated playing fiddle
Andy Dixon, seated playing fiddle
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Drogheda Mummers and Wren Boys Festival
Gerry O'Connor [negative] / Joe Dowdall
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Gerry O'Connor, seated playing fiddle
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Drogheda Mummers and Wren Boys Festival
Gerry O'Connor [negative] / Joe Dowdall
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Gerry O'Connor, seated playing fiddle
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Drogheda Mummers and Wren Boys Festival
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Féile na Bóinne, the Drogheda Folk Festival, was first organised as a weekend festival in January 1976 by a local committee of the Tradition Club of Drogheda, with an emphasis on Co Louth performers. It was next held on a larger scale in October 1977. A great concourse of singers, musicians, and dancers came to the town from all parts of Ireland that year, and parallel sessions of recitals, concerts, workshops, lectures, and sessions were held in the Whitworth Hall, the O’Raghallaighs GAA Club, and other local venues. The festival continued on a smaller scale into the 1980s. Revived in the 1990s, Féile na Bóinne still continues annually as an autumn weekend festival.
Many of the artists at the 1976 and 1977 festivals were photographed in performance by Drogheda professional photographer Joe Dowdall of West Street. His artistic work constitutes a valuable record of traditional music of the period, memorialising older source-singers and musicians who were then being discovered, and the young performers who were learning from them, in what was a heady and exciting period for Irish traditional music. Many of the singers, musicians and dancers pictured here have since died, and it is good to be able to see them in their heyday.
Fran McPhail and others [negative] / Joe Dowdall
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Various, guitar [negative] / Joe Dowdall
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Liam O'Flynn [negative] / Joe Dowdall
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Liam O'Flynn, seated playing pipes
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Feile na Boinne, Drogheda