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General Correspondence: 1964-1972

Letters from Seán Reid; Tom Busby; Wilbert Garvin; Paddy Moloney, Managing Director, Claddagh Records; Mícheál Ó Riabhaigh, Cork (Ó Riabhaigh, Mícheál, 1911-1976); Pat McNulty, Glasgow; Barry O’Neill, Ann Arbor, Michigan; John Curry, Williamsburg, Virginia; Roly Brown, Hungerford, Berkshire; Micheál Ó Ciaráin, Cavan; and Tony Engle, Director, Topic Records. An undated letter from Tom Busby [1970] congratulates Breathnach for ‘having the courage to organize such a necessary and wonderful association as Na Píobairí Uilleann’.

Butcher

BUTCHER, Eddie & Grace, also Evelyn (Mrs Mullen)
BUTCHER, Jimmy (brother of EB), Robert (brother of EB), Robert Jr (son of RB)

I-J

INTERNATIONAL FOLK MUSIC COUNCIL (with Graham George, 1-12-69;
2-2-72; 27-11-72)
IRELAND, Aideen: see ANTIQUARIES / Irish Folklore Commission
IRISH PRESS (Liam Robinson, features ed.)
IRISH TIMES (to Seamus Kelly (‘Quidnunc’) re letters to editor about ‘She moved through the fair, with letters from numerous people and press cuttings, Apr - June 1970

JAMES, Barbara
JENSEN, Colleen
JOHN PLAYER & SONS (1964 ballad competition)
JONSSON, Bengt
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE (Roger Renwick)
JUMP, Prof. John D.: see METHUEN
IRISH TIMES (letters etc: see also MOORE, Sylvia)
IRISH TIMES (to Seamus Kelly (‘Quidnunc’) re letters to editor about ‘She moved through the fair, with letters from numerous people and press cuttings, Apr–June 1970
IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW
IRWIN, Nicky: see (JOHN PLAYER & SONS which organized 1964 ballad competition that Hugh won)

Programmes and Ephemera

Various items of ephemera including concert programmes, advertising flyers for concerts and recordings, and seven beer mats. Includes programmes for 1975 United Kingdom tour ‘The Chieftains in concert’ in association with Harvey Goldsmith and Jo Lustig (6 Nov [1975]); The Edinburgh Rock Festival ‘79’ (1 Sep 1979); The Chieftains tour of China [May 1983]; ‘The Chieftains and Northern Ireland Symphony, Ulster Hall’ (14 Apr 1991); ‘Utah Symphony’ (20 Mar 1998); and a programme in Japanese ‘The Chieftains 2001’ (17 May 2001); also includes a beer mat from the ‘First Australian tour, Hail The Chieftains’ [1976].

Recordings

Original and photocopied newspaper clippings, letters and typescripts relating to Derek Bell’s solo & collaborative recordings. Includes review of album Carolan’s receipt (7 Jul 1976); a photocopied handwritten track list for [ Carolan’s favourite ] [1979]; various reviews of Carolan’s favourite ; a letter from Charles [Guard], Isle of Man to Derek Bell with information about Manx tunes and songs for a possible recording [1981]; typescript of ‘possible questions for Mel’s radio/TV interview with Derek [Bell] and Swami [James Donald Walters]’ the interview is to promote the album Mystic harp [1996]; review in German, French and English of Dussek an album by Derek Bell (harp) and Joanna Leach (piano) (7 Nov 2000); review in Italian and English of Sri Kryiananda (James Donald Walters) and Derek Bell’s album Mystic harp 2 (24 Nov 2002).

Variations on the IDB theme ‘Come on Northern Ireland’

Original typed letters and newspaper clippings relating to Derek Bell’s composition Variations on the IDB theme ‘Come on Northern Ireland ’. Includes letter from T. L. de Winne, Manager, Ulster Hall, Belfast to Derek Bell telling him that ‘this magnificent, accomplished, clever, witty, topical, pertinent, rousing work is deserving of becoming a Last Night of the Proms ‘standard’’ (1 Jul 1985). However in a subsequent letter he tells Bell that the orchestra refuses to play the Variations ‘on the basis that the work is “too partisan”, and that objections have been raised both by members of the orchestra and the Board of Directors’ (17 Jan 1986); original typescript by Derek Bell of performance guidelines ‘for Jack Thomson - (or the conductor) and Terry de Winne’ [?1987]; and also reviews of Variations … being performed by The Studio Symphony Orchestra in ‘final proms concert’ (15 Jun 1987).

The O'Connell Collection

The O'Connell Collection containing 212 tunes was sourced from Pat O'Connell (known locally as Patin, pronounced locally as Patch-een) Connell (without the O') a small farmer from the townland of Cordal. Patin was a pupil of Pádraig and kept his mss in two biscuit tins in the kitchen. He was a near neighbour of Pádraig and remembered him with great affection. He lent Caoimhín his collection in full which Caoimhín took away to Cork where he was living at the time. Caoimhín was not able to photocopy them but copied each one meticulously using stencils and Rotring drafting pens. The tablature was copied in this way and the transcriptions into staff notation were made subsequently. As Caoimhín finished off a batch of 20 or so mss he would post the originals back to Patin who received all in full in return.

Miscellaneous Manuscripts

Copies of 16 different miscellaneous Pádraig O’Keeffe manuscripts which were given to Caoimhín Mac Aoidh by various people over the years.
Three of the manuscripts are dated, the earliest is from April 1941 and the latest dates from October 1953. Some of the tunes were written on the inside of open cigarette packets etc. The collection is made up of 16 manuscripts in total and contains the greatest number of melodeon tablature tunes in Caoimhín Mac Aoidh's Pádraig O’Keeffe Collection.
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