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Breandán Breathnach Collection Kerry Ireland: Singing in Irish With digital objects
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Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 339 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 5

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 339 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 5

Speech: Untitled ['Our house was always a house of music...' Topics: SE's family background; mother sang, father played the pipes, flute, fiddle, tin whistle; pipers visited the house; Pat Ward, piper, who played a double chanter; he was killed by a bus in Drogheda; his daughter was also a good piper; other pipers, including Jim Brogan, Sharkey, Liam Andrew; father played the Highland pipes for visitors; SE played Highland pipes; another visitor, Billy Clarke, from Co Monaghan, took part in the recording 'The Pipes of Three Nations'; Colm O Lochlainn visited the Ennis household every Thursday evening; O Lochlainn learned pipes from SE's father, and in exchange taught the Irish language to SE's father; O Lochlainn took SE with him on holidays in Connemara; SE learned his first song, An Droighnean Donn, in Rosmuc, in Connemara]
Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 339 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 9

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 339 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 9

Speech: Untitled ['I found that Connemara...' Topics: riches of Connemara as a repository of folk traditions; SE enjoyed working in Connemara and hated returning to Dublin city; SE visited the Hebrides for the Irish Folklore Commission and spent 6 months there; the song 'O Son of the Earl of the White Banners']
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