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Seán Reid Letters: 1937

Letters from various friends and relatives to Seán Reid who at this time is the ‘Assistant Road Surveyor’ in Ennis, Co. Clare. Letters are mostly addressed to John Reid, ‘Carmel’, Victoria Rd, Ennis, Co Clare. Letters are from, among others, ‘Jas. Leahy’, Mícheál de Búrca, E. J. McGrath, D[enis] Dunphy, ‘F? Dowling’, Tommie [Potts] (Potts, Tommie, 1912–1988), 6 Watkins Buildings, Ardee St, Dublin, John Potts, Mick Malone and Liam Ó Ceallaigh. Many letters contain references to musicians, feiseanna, céilí, music lessons, including a letter from ‘D Dunphy’ (6 May 1937) which encloses a programme for ‘Feis Thír-Eóghain 22nd-23rd May, 1937 in St Patrick’s Hall and Foresters’ Hall, Omagh.’ A letter from ‘Tommie [Potts]’ (22 July 1937) makes reference to a recent feis win by Reid ‘all of us were delighted to hear of your fiddling success’ and in a letter from John Potts (11 August 1937) he lists a number of his current uilleann pipe students including ‘Fr Jones’, ‘Bro Gildas’, ‘Mr Andrews’ and Mr Kearney’.

Seán Reid Letters: 1927-1936

Letters from various friends and relatives to Seán Reid who between these years lived at a number of addresses including: Ormeau Road, Belfast; Hibernian Hotel, Borrisokane, Co Tipperary; 70 Haddington Road, Dublin and Royal Oak Road, Bagenalstown, Co Carlow. Letters from Seán Reid’s mother, Scarvagherin, Co Tyrone are personal in nature. Letters from Rev Leo Browne, Verdun, Montreal, refer to Reid as his ‘dear old sparring partner’ (6 Oct 1927), and Redmond [Nugent?], Erganagh, Castlederg, refer to training and boxing and talk about the ‘good old times’. Letters of a more musical nature with references to uilleann pipes, fiddles, and various Irish music publications including ‘O’Neill’s music for Piano & Violin’ and ‘Moore’s Melodies’ are exchanged with the following people: John Potts, 6 Watkins Blds., Off Ardee St, Dublin, who is glad to hear that Reid is ‘progressing with the pipes’; ‘John’, Spamount, Castlederg, [Co Tyrone]; ‘Brian’, 23 Salisbury Gardens, Belfast; D[enis] Dunphy, Spamount, Castlederg, Co. Tyrone; ‘M. McGlinchey’, R.U.C Barracks, York St, Belfast; ‘M. Foley’, Kuigh, Nenagh, Co Tipperary and ‘J. Leahy’, The Chalet, Ballinaclough, Nenagh. There are also two undated letters from Paddy Brennan and ‘R Freeman’, Dooleys Hotel, Bagenalstown, Co Carlow. The letter writers say that they ‘miss [Reid] a lot here, no pipes, no violin, nothing but the Gramophone to remind us of you.’

Seán Reid Letters

Letters addressed to John Reid (Reid, Seán, 1907-1978) from various correspondents including musicians John Potts, who taught Reid the uilleann pipes, Tommie Potts (Potts, Tommie, 1912-1988) and Brother Gildas (Ó Sé, Pádraig, ? 1881-1960).

Seán Reid Ephemera

Various items of ephemera including concert programmes, receipts and newspaper clippings. These relate to Feiseanna, Conradh na Gaeilge, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael (GAA) and An Cumann Gaelach, Queen's University Belfast. Included are a ‘Programme of Concert in New Cinema, Thurles, November 14th, 1935’ and ‘Clár Feis Charman 1936’.
Seán Reid Collection. Reel-to-Reel 2 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Seán Reid Collection. Reel-to-Reel 2 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Potts, Tommy, Dublin, fiddle solo, track 1–6
Unidentified performer, speech in English, track 3
Reck, Tommy, Dublin, pipes solo, track 7–23, 26–28
Unidentified performer [Jim Ward?], speech in English, track 24; lilting, track 24
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Dublin, speech in English, track 24
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo, track 25

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [Julia Delaney]
2. Reels: Untitled [Faral O'Gara], Untitled [The Humours of Scarriff]
3. Speech, Air, Reel: Untitled [Identification of the musician], Untitled [An Raibh Tu ag an gCarraig?], Untitled [The Bunch of Keys]
4. Reels: Untitled [The Queen of May], Untitled [The Lads of Laois]
5. Air, Jig: Untitled [My Lagan Love], Untitled [Garrett Barry's Jig]
6. Reel: Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate]
7. Reels: Untitled [Roaring Mary], Untitled [The Shaskeen Reel]
8. Reels: Untitled [The Maid in the Cherry Tree (CRE, # 103)], Untitled [The Woman of the House]
9. Jigs: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches], Untitled [The Rambles of Kitty]
10. Reels: Untitled [The Salamanca], Untitled [Rolling in the Ryegrass]
11. Airs: Untitled [The Dear Irish Boy], Untitled [Cailin Deas Cruite na mBo / The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow]
12. Hornpipes: Untitled [Pretty Maggie Morrissey], Untitled [Dunphy's Hornpipe], Untitled (incomplete) [Harvest Home] [END OF BAND ONE]
13. Hornpipe: Untitled (clipped at start) [Harvest Home; continuation of previous track]
14. Slip Jig: Untitled [The Munster Gimlet / Will You Come down to Limerick / Kitty Come down to Limerick]
15. Reels: Untitled [Speed the Plough], Untitled [The Skylark], Untitled [The Merry Blacksmith], Untitled [The Scholar], Untitled [Hand Me down the Tackle]
16. Jigs: Untitled [Port an Bhrathar (CRE, # 21)], Untitled [Port Shean tSeain (CRE, # 22)]
17. Jig: Untitled [Port Shean tSeain (CRE, # 22)]
18. Jig: Untitled [The Gander in the Pratie Hole]
19. Reel: Untitled [Miss Monaghan]
20. Air: Untitled [An Buachaill Caol Dubh]
21. Air: Untitled [The Lament for Staker Wallace]
22. Reel: Untitled [The Bucks of Oranmore]
23. Reel: Untitled [Played in three different registers]
24. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the tune to be performed], Untitled [Jim Ward's Jig]
25. Reel: Untitled [The Crooked Road to Dublin]
26. Air: Untitled [An Raibh Tu ag an gCarraig?]
27. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Londonderry Hornpipe / The Derry Hornpipe]
28. Hornpipe: Untitled (clipped at end) [The Tailor's Twist] [END OF BAND TWO]

Seán Reid Collection

  • SRE-18803
  • Collection
  • n.d.
Collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings, laregly of Irish dance music on fiddle and pipes. Includes performances by Tommy Potts, Willie Clancy, Bobby Casey, Andy McGann, Séamus Ennis and Jacky Coen, as well as an interview with Tommy Potts.

Reid, Seán, 1907-1978

Seán Reid

This series contains letters and ephemera which were originally in an envelope marked 'S. Reid’. Seán Reid was a fiddler and an uilleann piper, born in Castlefin, Co. Donegal he moved to Ennis in Co. Clare in 1937 and lived there for forty years. Along with Breandán Breathnach he was founder member of Na Píobairí Uilleann and played an important part in its evolution. The series contains five letters from the famous Irish American music collector, Francis O'Neill, (O'Neill, Francis, 1848-1936) to the uilleann piper William Halpin. Also included are letters, the majority written in 1937 and 1938, from various friends and relatives to Seán Reid (Reid, Seán, 1907-1978). Some letters are personal in nature, for example those from his mother and sister, ‘Kathleen’, but the majority include many references to music, musicians and uilleann piping in 1930s Ireland. There are also a number of items of ephemera relating to feiseanna & Irish music events.
Sean Potts and others [negative] / Orla Henihan

Sean Potts and others [negative] / Orla Henihan

Sean Potts, playing whistle at Willie Clancy's graveside
Sean Potts, playing pipes at Willie Clancy's graveside
Unidentified onlookers, seated an standing

Creation Location:
Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare

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