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Píobaire, An, Volume 5, Issue 2, Page 27

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Na Píobairí Uilleann
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Chairman, NPU
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Píobaire, An
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5
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27Given the coincidences of time and place, andfame, the likelihood is that the sketch is ofTurlough McSweeney, and was possiblytaken from life by Thomson in the late 1890s.This seems confirmed by a comparison of thedrawing with the above undated (but c. 1910)photograph of Turlough McSweeney.2Thepiper’s clothing, side-whiskers, chair, andgeneral posture, etc., are similar in both illus-trations, and it seems safe to conclude that theimage of the unnamed Irish piper published in1899 was modelled on Turlough McSweeney.With thanks to Treasa Harkin, ITMA; HelenPerry, Causeway Museum Service,Coleraine; Professor Ciaran Carson.1 For McSweeney see Francis O’Neill, Irish Minstrelsand Musicians, Chicago, 1913, pp. 289–95; PádraigMac Seáin, ‘Seanchas faoi Chlainn tSuibhne agus fáTharlach Mac Suibhne, An Píobaire Mór’,Béaloideas. The Journal of the Folklore of IrelandSociety (1964), pp. 71–84; Seán Ó Gallchóir,‘Tarlach Mac Suibhne, An Píobaire Mór’, DonegalAnnual vol. xii, no 2 (1978), pp. 245–53; TomSweeney, ‘Tarlach Mac Suibhne, An Píobaire Mór’in The Sweeneys: Fanad Doe Banagh International,ed. J.P. Sweeney, Gweedore, 1997, pp. 74–9.2 Donated to the ITMA in 1995 by the late Ted Hickeyof the Ulster Museum, Belfast. The dating is givenby Ciaran Carson in Slow Air vol. 1, no 2 (June1976), p. 2. A later photo of McSweeney is in SeanSexton, Ireland: Photographs 1840–1930, London,1994, pp. 178–9. The Coleraine Museum holds asubstantial collection of Hugh Thomson’s originalartwork, but it does not include ‘An Irish Piper’.~ Through Irish Eyes ~Piper and dancers, Sydney, 1916, from Patrick O’Farrell, Through Irish Eyes, Australian & NewZealand Images of the Irish 1788-1948, Aurora Books, Victoria, 1994
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2
page Number
27
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2009-04-17T00:00:00
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Píobaire, An, Volume 5, Issue 2

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