Seamus Ennis

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The Woman of the House 01:24 Tools
Were You at the Rock? 02:20 Tools
The Bucks Fo Oranmore 01:45 Tools
Will You Come With Me over the Mountain 01:45 Tools
The Rocks of Bawn 01:22 Tools
Molly Bawn 01:59 Tools
Mrs. McGrath 01:49 Tools
Whiskey in the Jar 02:08 Tools
A Little Bench Of Rushes 02:42 Tools
The Cuckoo's Hornpipe 01:31 Tools
The Banks of the Roses 01:35 Tools
The First House in Connaught/The Copper Plate Reel 02:24 Tools
The Kerry Recruit 02:51 Tools
The Cavan Brigade/When The Cock Crows It Is Day/Sixpenny Money Jigs 03:11 Tools
Gol Na Mban 'San Ar 02:09 Tools
The Fairy Boy 02:45 Tools
The Thrush In The Straw (Irish Pipe and Tinwhistle Songs) 02:45 Tools
Will You Come With Me Over The Mountain (Irish Pipe and Tinwhistle Songs) 01:43 Tools
The Thrush Anin The Straw 01:02 Tools
The Cuckoo's Hornpipe (Irish Pipe and Tinwhistle Songs) 01:43 Tools
First House in Connaught/The Copper Plate Reel 00:00 Tools
A Leansh Sidhe 02:47 Tools
The First House In Connaught; The Copper Plate Rule 02:18 Tools
Hogan's Favorite, Connaught Man's Rambles, Lark in the Morning, When the Cock Crows It Is Day 02:18 Tools
The Thrush In The Straw 01:07 Tools
An Leanbh Sidhe (The Fairy Boy) 02:45 Tools
The Wealthy Squire 01:41 Tools
The Farmer's Cursed Wife 01:41 Tools
The Blackbird 04:20 Tools
Dublin City 01:02 Tools
A Warm Drink for the Baby 02:11 Tools
The Bonny Bunch Of Roses 04:52 Tools
As I Roved Out 01:36 Tools
Behind the Bush in the Garden 02:05 Tools
The First House In Connaught / The Copper Plate Reel 02:17 Tools
Marrow Bones 02:02 Tools
The New Demesne 01:40 Tools
The Boys of Bluehill, Dunphy's Hornpipe 04:12 Tools
Rainy Day/First You Must Learn The Grip 00:00 Tools
The Frieze Britches 06:40 Tools
Gol Na Mban 'San Ar (The Women's Lament In Battle) 02:07 Tools
An Clar Bog-Deil (The Bog Deal Board) 02:34 Tools
Molly O'Malone 02:42 Tools
The Glen-Nephin Cuckoo / The Little Fair Cannavans 04:34 Tools
The Little Stack of Barley / Cronin's Hornpipe 04:10 Tools
Bean Dubh An Ghleanna 04:43 Tools
The Bucks of Oranmore 01:53 Tools
Na Ceannbháin Bhána 00:59 Tools
Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrel 04:37 Tools
The Gold Ring 04:37 Tools
The Wandering Minstrel, Jackson's Morning Brush 05:34 Tools
An Leanbh Sidhe 02:45 Tools
Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part 02:28 Tools
The Wandering Minstrel / Jackson's Morning Brush 05:35 Tools
The Fox Chase 08:05 Tools
The Flags of Dublin / The Wind that Shakes the Barley 00:00 Tools
Uirchill An Chreagáin 02:24 Tools
The Brown Thorn 01:27 Tools
The Copperplate Reel 02:28 Tools
The Rainy Day/The Merry Blacksmith/The Silver Spear 00:00 Tools
First You Must Learn The Grip 02:28 Tools
The Trip We Took Over The Mountain 02:28 Tools
Pat Ward's Hornpipe 01:36 Tools
Mrs McGrath 00:00 Tools
The Cuckoo's Hornpipe (Excerpt) 02:28 Tools
Johnny Seoighe 03:22 Tools
The Flags of Dublin, The Wind that Shakes the Barley 01:15 Tools
The Rainy Day/First You Must Learn the Grip 01:15 Tools
A Little Bunch Of Rushes 02:42 Tools
An Clar Bog-Deil 02:34 Tools
The Bucks Oranmore 01:59 Tools
The Boyne Hunt 01:20 Tools
The Rainy Day/TheMerry Blacksmith/The Silver Spear 02:42 Tools
The Wounded Hussar 01:59 Tools
Gillian's Apples, The Walls of Liscarroll, The Stone in the Field 04:19 Tools
Casadh An tSúgáin 05:26 Tools
The Fairies' Hornpipe 03:32 Tools
Will You Come With Me Over The Mountains 01:41 Tools
The Bonny Bunch Of Roses-O 04:46 Tools
An Binsín Luachra 03:50 Tools
Don Niperi Septo 05:26 Tools
Salamanca / Duke Gordon / Jenny's Welcome to Charlie 03:41 Tools
Pat Ward's 02:16 Tools
Hogan's Favorite / The Connaught Man's Ramble / The Lark In The Morning / When The Cock Crows It Is Day 04:49 Tools
Fine Girl You Are 02:30 Tools
Paddy Killoran's Reel 05:26 Tools
What Would You Do? 01:42 Tools
Gol Na Mban 'San Ar (The Woman's Lament In Battle) 02:07 Tools
An Bearach Connachtach 01:42 Tools
The Praties Are Dug and the Frost is All Over 01:36 Tools
The Lark's March 01:36 Tools
The Return From Fingal 04:49 Tools
Hogan's Favorite/The Connaught Man's Ramble/The Lark In The Morning/When The Cock Crows It Is Day 04:49 Tools
If All the Young Maidens Were Blackbirds and Thrushes 04:49 Tools
Donegal Reel 04:45 Tools
The Broken Pledge 03:22 Tools
Easter Snow 02:18 Tools
The Leitrim Thrush/Miss Johnson 01:36 Tools
Salamanca/Duke Gordon/Jenny's Welcome To Charlie 05:47 Tools
Gentle Philip Fahy 02:15 Tools
Dónall Óg 04:45 Tools
The Rocky Road to Dublin 00:52 Tools
Jenny's Welcome To Charlie 02:15 Tools
Enny's Welcome To Charlie 00:00 Tools
The Sound of the Drum 00:47 Tools
The First House in Connaught / The Copper Plate Rule 02:05 Tools
The Bucks Of Oranmore (Reel) 01:45 Tools
Valencia Harbour 00:00 Tools
Happy To Meet & Sorry To Part 02:30 Tools
Salamanca / Duke Gordon 04:09 Tools
As I Roved Out [Ireland] 00:47 Tools
The Pure Drop & the Flax in Bloom (Two Reels) 00:47 Tools
Hogan's Favorite / The Connaught Man's Rambles / The Lark In The Morning / When the Cock Crows It Is Day 04:51 Tools
The Rainy Day / First You Must Learn The Grip 02:18 Tools
Piper Of The Embers / Down The Back Lane / Sixpenny Money / Paudeen O'Rafferty 02:17 Tools
Ned Of The Hill 01:45 Tools
The Silver Spear / The Dublin Reel / Miss Monahan 02:17 Tools
Marrowbones 01:45 Tools
The Mary Anne McHugh 04:51 Tools
The Merry Blacksmith / The Rainy Day / The Silver Spear 00:30 Tools
I'll Mend Your Pots and Kettles O 02:17 Tools
Bucks Of Oranmore 01:45 Tools
The Rambling Pitchfork 02:04 Tools
Speed The Plough / The Merry Blacksmith / The Forge Music 02:17 Tools
The Bucks of Oranmore/The Sligo Maid Lament 02:17 Tools
The Fairy Boy (Slow Air) 04:38 Tools
The Rainy Day / The Merry Blacksmith / The Silver Spear 04:20 Tools
Paudeen O'Rafferty / The Friar's Jig 04:20 Tools
Hogan's Favorite / Connaught Man's Rambles / Lark in the Morning / When the Cock Crows It Is Day 03:46 Tools
Johnny Cope 02:17 Tools
Gillan’s Apples / The Walls Of Liscarroll / The Stone In The Field 04:20 Tools
An Clár Bog Déil (The Bog Deal Board) 02:17 Tools
Casadh an T-Sugain (The Twisting of the Hay-Rope) 00:30 Tools
The Groves Hornpipe & Dwyer's Hornpipe (Hornpipes) 03:22 Tools
Feidlim Tonn Ri's Castle Story Continued - Pt. 7 00:35 Tools
O'Sullivan the Great (March) 00:35 Tools
The Bucks of Oranmore / The Sligo Maid's Lament 00:30 Tools
The Whistling Thief 02:05 Tools
The Pure Drop/The Flax In Bloom 02:17 Tools
White Connor's Daughter, Nora 00:30 Tools
What Would You Do If You Married a Soldier? 02:24 Tools
Uncle Frog Went Out to Ride 01:24 Tools
The Praties Are Dug & The Frost Is All Over 02:05 Tools
The Little Bench Of Rushes 02:42 Tools
The Merry Blacksmith, The Rainy Day, The Silver Spear 02:05 Tools
Sixpenny Money / When The Cock Crows It Is Day 01:55 Tools
The First House In Connaught/TheCopper Plate Reel 02:05 Tools
The Bands of the Roses 02:05 Tools
I'll Mend Your Pots and Kettles 01:55 Tools
By the River of Gems & The Rocky Road to Dublin (Slow Air and Slip-Jig) 01:55 Tools
The Kid On the Mountain 01:55 Tools
Captain Wedderburn 04:14 Tools
Bog Down in the Valley-O 02:42 Tools
The First House In Connaught 01:55 Tools
The Merry Blacksmith/The Rainy Day/The Silver Spear 02:42 Tools
The Wandering Minstrel/Jackson's Morning Brush 05:34 Tools
The Pure Drop - The Flax In Bloom 02:56 Tools
When Sick, Is it Tea You Want? & The Humours of Drinagh (Double Jigs) 02:56 Tools
Hogan's Favorite/The Connaught Man's Rambles/The Lark in the Morning/ 05:34 Tools
O'Sullivan The Great 02:05 Tools
I'll Mend You're Pots And Kettles 00:53 Tools
Reels: Bonny Kate, The Milliner's Daughter, The Flannel Jacket 03:46 Tools
The Morning Thrush 02:56 Tools
The Bucks of Oranmore/The Sligo Maid's Lament 02:42 Tools
Bonny Kate / The Milliner's Daughter / The Flannel Jacket 00:53 Tools
Music At The Gate/The Pigeon On The Gate 05:34 Tools
The Bucks of Oranmore, The Sligo Maid's Lament 01:35 Tools
The Donegal Reel 03:46 Tools
The Dublin Reel 02:13 Tools
The Silver Spear, The Dublin Reel, Miss Monahan 03:46 Tools
Reels: The Mountain Lark, The Sligo Maid's Lament, The Flax in Bloom 00:52 Tools
Gillian's Apples / The Walls of Liscarroll / The Stone in the Field 02:42 Tools
Flags Of Dublin/Wind That Shakes The Barley 02:42 Tools
The First House In Connaught / The Cooper Plate Reel 02:42 Tools
Na Ceannbhain Bhana (Song) 00:59 Tools
Copper Plate Reel 03:46 Tools
The Blooming Meadows/Kitty's Rambles 01:24 Tools
Aid and Set Dance:An Droighne'an Donn, The Garden of Daisies 01:35 Tools
Banish Misfortune 01:44 Tools
The Eagles Whistle 01:43 Tools
Hornpipe: Ballymanus Fair 01:39 Tools
Reel: Lady Carbury (The Mason's Apron) 01:21 Tools
By The River Of Gems - The Rocky Road To Dublin 01:21 Tools
The Ace And Deuce Of Piping 03:50 Tools
The Flages of Dublin, The Wind that Shakes the Barley 03:46 Tools
O'Keeffe's Plough / The Merry Blacksmith / The Music of the Forge (Reels) 03:22 Tools
Jig and Air: The gold Ring, Uirchill and Chreagain 01:44 Tools
Hornpipes:The Bantry Hornpipe, The Pleasures of Hope 03:41 Tools
If All the Young Maidens Were Blackbirds & Thrushes 01:35 Tools
The Groves Hornpipe - Dwyer's Hornpipe 01:35 Tools
Feidlim Tonn Ri's Castle Story Continued - Pt. 1 05:03 Tools
Jigs:The Pipe on the Hob, An Buachaillin Bui, East of Glendart 01:35 Tools
Hornpipes:The Tailor's Twist, Kelly's Hornpipe 04:45 Tools
The Stone in the Field 02:21 Tools
Ask My Father - Pat Ward's Jig 01:35 Tools
Music at the Gate - The Pigeon on the Gate 01:35 Tools
Sixpenny Money/When the Cock Crows It Is Day 04:45 Tools
Speed The Plough/The Merry Blacksmith/The Forge Music 02:04 Tools
Paudeen O'Rafferty/The Friar's Jig 03:50 Tools
Sean O Duibhir An Ghleanna 00:59 Tools
The Tailor's Twist / Kelly's Hornpipe 01:39 Tools
The Rocks of Dawn 01:39 Tools
Uirchill An Chreagain (Pipes) 02:24 Tools
An Clar Bog Diel (The Bog - Deal Board) 02:33 Tools
Farmer's Cursed Wife 01:35 Tools
Set Dance: The Ace and Deuce of Piping 04:45 Tools
Paudeen O' Rafferty, The Friar's Jig 00:00 Tools
Salamanca, Diúc Goran, Fáilte Shinéad Roimh Tharlach (Pipes) 01:44 Tools
Speed the Plough, The Merry Blacksmith, The Forge Music 04:45 Tools
Ask My Father/Pat Ward's Jig 03:46 Tools
Jig:Tatter Jack Walsh 01:44 Tools
Hornpipes: Ballymanus Fair, The Standing Abbey 04:14 Tools
Double Jig and Single Jigs:Smash the Windows,The Drops of Brandy, The Tenpenny Piece, A Fig for a Kiss 04:14 Tools
Amhran agus Fonn:An Cruiscin Lan 04:14 Tools
Feidlim Tonn Ri's Castle Story Finish 00:58 Tools
Reels: The Fair-haired Girl, The Bucks of Oranmore 00:58 Tools
First House In Connaught Copper Plate Reel 03:41 Tools
Feidlim Tonn Ri's Castle 09:24 Tools
Chase Me, Charlie - The Dingle Regatta 01:35 Tools
The Standing Abbey/The Stack Of Barley 03:46 Tools
Jigs:The Butcher's March, When the Cock Crows Its Day, Sixpenny Money 01:35 Tools
Jog:The Frieze Britches 04:45 Tools
March:The Return from Fingal 04:45 Tools
The Rainy Day - A Far Wind 02:04 Tools
The Silver Spear/The Dublin Reel/Miss Monahan 04:45 Tools
The Flags of Dublin/The Wind That Shakes the Barley 03:50 Tools
The Gold Ring / Uirchill An Chreagain 01:39 Tools
An Cruiscin Lan 01:39 Tools
The Fair-Haired Girl / The Bucks Of Oranmore 03:50 Tools
A Warm Drink For The Baby (1964) 04:19 Tools
Hogan's Favorite/The Connaught Man's Ramble/The Lark In the Morning... 00:00 Tools
Wandering Minstrel/Jackson's Morning Brush 00:00 Tools
Slow Air: Ned of the Hill 00:00 Tools
Hogan's Favorite/TheConnaughtman's Ramble/The Lark in the Morning 00:00 Tools
Salamanca, Duke Gordon 04:45 Tools
What Would You Do 00:00 Tools
Dónal Óg 02:33 Tools
By The River Of Gems/The Rocky Road To Dublin 01:35 Tools
Captain Wedderburn's Courtship 04:45 Tools
Reels:The Salamanca, Hand Me Down the Tackle, The Merry Blacksmith, The Beauty Spot 04:45 Tools
Sixpenny Money, When the Cock Crows It Is Day 04:45 Tools
Smash The Windows/The Dark Girl In Blue 01:35 Tools
When Sick, Is It Tea You Want?/The Humours Of Drinagh 02:24 Tools
Reels: The Silver Spear, The Dublin Reel 02:04 Tools
Amhran agus Fonn Mall:Eamonn a' Chnoic 04:45 Tools
The Derry Hornpipe/The Cuckoo's Nest 01:35 Tools
Stay For Another While - I Have No Money - The Cushogue 03:41 Tools
When Sick, Is It Tea You Want ? - The Humours Of Drinagh 03:41 Tools
Hogan's Favorite/The Connaught Man's Ramble/The Lark in the Morning 03:41 Tools
The Fishermans Hornpipe 02:12 Tools
Feidlim Tonn Ri's Castle Story Continued - Pt. 2 05:26 Tools
Feidlim Tonn Ri's Castle Story Continued - Pt. 4 04:19 Tools
Wealthy Squire 02:04 Tools
Chase Me, Charlie/The Dingle Regatta 02:24 Tools
Slieve Russell/Sixpenny Money 01:35 Tools
Hogan's Favourite/The Connaught Man's Rambles/The Lark In The Morning/When The Cock Crows It Is Day 04:45 Tools
The Leitrim Thrush - Miss Johnson 04:45 Tools
Hogan's Favorite, The Connaught Man's Rambles, The Lark In The Morning, When The Cock Crows It Is Day 04:45 Tools
Reel: The Morning Thrush 04:45 Tools
The Braes Of Busby - Colonel Frazer 02:04 Tools
Slip Jigs: The Dusty Miller 04:45 Tools
The Merry Sisters - Music in The Forge - Castle Kelly 02:04 Tools
Smash The Windows - The Dark Girl In Blue 02:04 Tools
The Blooming Meadows - Kitty's Rambles 02:04 Tools
Salamanca/Duke Gordon 02:04 Tools
Eamon A' Chnoic 03:50 Tools
The Bantry Hornpipe / The Pleasures Of Hope 03:50 Tools
Ballymanus Fair 04:45 Tools
The Mountain Lark / The Sligo Maid's Lament / The Flax In Bloom 03:50 Tools
An Droimeann Donn Dilis 04:45 Tools
Ballymanus Fair / The Standing Abbey 03:50 Tools
Hogan's Favorite / The Connaughtman's Ramble / The Lark in the Morning / When the Cock Crow's It Is Day 03:50 Tools
The Groves Hornpipe/Dwyer's Hornpipe 00:00 Tools
The Rainy Day 02:13 Tools
The Rainy Day/A Fair Wind 01:44 Tools
The Standing Abbey - The Stack Of Barley 05:03 Tools
Feidlim Tonn Ri's Castle Story Continued - Pt. 6 05:03 Tools
The Walls of Liscarroll 02:10 Tools
The Boys of the Lough 01:50 Tools
Feidlim Tonn Ri's Castle Story Continued - Pt. 3 02:28 Tools
Gol Na Mban 'San Ar - The Woman's Lament In Battle 02:04 Tools
Slieve Russell - Sixpenny Money 02:04 Tools
Amhran agus Fonn Mall:An Droimeann Donn Dills 02:04 Tools
Stay For Another While/I Have No Money/The Cushogue 01:35 Tools
the first house in connaught, the copper plate reel 02:33 Tools
The Derry Hornpipe - The Cuckoo's Nest 02:33 Tools
Molly O'Malone (Radio Boredcast Day 9) 02:04 Tools
Frieze Breeches 02:04 Tools
An Droighnean Donn / The Garden Of Daisies 04:45 Tools
The Butcher's March / When The Cock Crows It Is Day / Sixpenny Money 02:04 Tools
The Silver Spear / The Dublin Reel 04:45 Tools
An Raibh Tú ag an gCarraig? 02:04 Tools
Lady Carbury (The Mason's Apron) 04:45 Tools
The Salamanca / Hand Me Down The Tackle 04:45 Tools
The Dusty Miller (Two Versions) 04:45 Tools
Tatter Jack Walsh 04:45 Tools
Bean Dubh An Ghleanna (Song) 04:44 Tools
The Rainy Day-First You Must Learn The Grip 04:38 Tools
Hogan's Favorite/The Connaught Man's Rambles/The Lark in the Morning 04:44 Tools
An Binsin Luachra (Song) 03:51 Tools
The Merry Sisters/Music In The Forge/Castle Kelly 04:45 Tools
An Fainne Oir (The Gold Ring)(Story & Pipes) 04:38 Tools
The Bonny Bunch Of Roses - O 02:28 Tools
Feidlim Tonn Ri's Castle Story Continued - Pt. 8 02:28 Tools
Feidlim Tonn Ri's Castle Story Continued - Pt. 5 02:28 Tools
A Warm Drink for the Baby (1964)/(Ireland) Seamus Ennis 04:19 Tools
Amhran agus Fonn Mall: Sean O Duibhir an Ghleanna 02:33 Tools
The Pipe On The Hob / An Buachaillin Bui / East Of Gledart 02:04 Tools
Valencia Harbour (Slow Air) 02:04 Tools
Slow Air: Valencia Harbour 02:33 Tools
The Rainy Day, First You Must Learn The Grip 03:22 Tools
Casadh An TSugain (Song) 02:33 Tools
Cornphiopa Phat Ward (Pat Ward's Hornpipe)(Whistle) 01:36 Tools
The First House in Connaught-TheCopper Plate Reel 02:33 Tools
The Kid On The Mountain (Slip-jig) 02:33 Tools
Johnny Seoighe (Song) 03:22 Tools
Music at the Gate 03:22 Tools
O'Sullivan The Goat 03:22 Tools
Air: Easter Snow 02:28 Tools
Hogan'sFavorite-TheConnaughtMan'sRamble-TheLarkintheMorning- 04:19 Tools
Copperplate Reel 02:28 Tools
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Séamus Ennis (Irish: Séamas Mac Aonghusa; 5 May 1919 – 5 October 1982) was an Irish musician, singer and Irish music collector. He was most noted for his uilleann pipe playing and was partly responsible for the revival of the instrument during the twentieth century having co-founded Na Píobairí Uilleann, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of the uilleann pipes and its music. He is recognised for having preserved almost 2,000 Irish songs and dance-tunes as part of the work he did with the Irish Folklore Commission. Ennis is widely regarded as one of the greatest uilleann pipers of all time. In 1908 James Ennis, Séamus's father, bought a bag of small pieces of Uilleann pipes in a London pawn shop. They were made in the early nineteenth century by Coyne of Thomas Street in Dublin. James worked as a civil servant in Naul, Co Dublin. In 1912 he came first at the Oireachtas competition for warpipes, second at Uilleann pipes. He was also a prize-winning dancer. He married Mary McCabe in 1916. They had six children, including Séamus, who was born on May 5th 1919 in Jamestown in Finglas, North County Dublin. James Ennis was a member of the Fingal trio, which included Frank O'Higgins (fiddle) and John Cawley (flute). They performed on the radio. At the age of thirteen, Séamus started receiving lessons on the pipes from his father. He attended the all-Irish schools at Scoil Cholm Cille and Colaiste Mhuire, which gave him a knowledge of the Irish language as well as English. He sat an exam to become Employment Exchange clerk but was too far down the list to be offered a job. He was twenty and unemployed. Three Candles Press Colm Ó Lochlainn was editor of "Irish Street Ballads" and a friend of the Ennis family. In 1938 Séamus confided in Colm that he intended to move to England to join the British Army. Colm immediately offered him a job at The Three Candles Press. There Séamus learned all aspects of the printing trade. This included writing down slow airs for printed scores - a skill which later proved important. Colm was director of an Irish language choir, An Claisceadal, which Séamus joined. In 1942 war shortages meant that things became difficult in the printing trade. Professor Seamus O Duilearge of the Irish Folklore Commission hired the 23-year old to collect songs. He was given "pen, paper and pushbike" and a salary of three pounds per week. Off he went to Connemara. The song collector From 1942 to 1947 Séamus collected songs in West Munster, Galway, Cavan, Mayo, Donegal, Kerry, the Aran Islands and the Scottish Hebrides. His knowledge of Scots Gaelic enabled him to transcribe much of the John Lorne Campbell collection of songs. Elizabeth Cronin of Baile Mhuirne, County Cork was so keen to chat to Séamus on his visits that she wrote down her own songs and handed them over as he arrived, and then got down to conversation. He had a natural empathy with the musicians and singers he met. In August 1947 he started work as an outside broadcast officer with Radio Eireann. He was a presenter and recorded Willie Clancy, Sean Reid and Micho Russell for the first time. There was an air of authority in his voice. In 1951 Alan Lomax and Jean Ritchie arrived from America to record Irish songs and tunes. The tables were turned as Séamus became the subject of someone else's collection. There is a photograph from 1952/53 showing Jean huddled over the tape recorder while Séamus plays Uilleann pipes. As I Roved Out Late in 1951 he joined the BBC. He moved to London to work with producer Brian George. In 1952 he married Margaret Glynn. They had two children, Catherine and Christopher. His job was to record the traditional music of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland and to present it on the BBC Home Service. The programme was called "As I Roved Out" and ran until 1958. The poet Dylan Thomas managed to wangle his way onto this project. For him it was a pub-crawl around Britain. Meeting up with Alan Lomax again, Séamus was largely responsible for the album Folk and Primitive Music (volume on Ireland) on the Columbia label. Full time musician In 1958 he starting doing freelance work, first in England then back in Ireland, with the new TV station Teilifis Eireann. His father left him the pipes he had bought in 1908. Soon he was relying totally on his musical ability to make a living. About this time his marriage broke down. In 1964 he performed at the Newport Folk Festival. Although most pipers can be classed as playing in a tight style or an open style, Séamus was in between. He disapproved of the flashy style adopted by Leo Rowsome. Séamus was a master of the slow air, knowing how to decorate long notes with taste and discreet variation. Two legendary sessions Two events will live in legend among pipers. The first was in Bettystown in 1968, when the society of Irish pipers, Na Piobairi Uilleann, was formed. Brendan Breathnach was playing a tape of his own piping. Séamus asked "What year?" Brendan replied "1948". Séamus said "So I thought". For a couple of hours the younger players performed while Séamus sat in silence. Eventually he was asked to play. Slowly he took off his coat and rolled up his sleeves. He spent 20 minutes tuning up his 130-year-old pipes. He then asked the gathering whether all the tape recorders were ready and proceeded to play for over an hour. To everyone's astonishment he then offered his precious pipes to Willie Clancy to play a set. Willie demurred but eventually gave in. Next Liam O'Flynn (Liam Og Ó Floinn) was asked to play them, and so on, round the room. The second unforgettable session was in Dowlings' pub in Prosperous in County Kildare. Christy Moore was there, as well as most of the future members of Planxty. Séamus never ran any school of piping but his enthusiasm infused everyone he met. In the early seventies he shared a house with Liam O'Flynn for almost three years. Finally he bought a piece of land in Naul and lived in a mobile home there. One of his last performances was at the Willie Clancy Summer School in 1982. He died on October 5th, 1982. His pipes were bequeathed to Liam O'Flynn. Radio producer Peter Browne produced a compilation of his performances, called "The Return from Fingal" spanning 40 years. Discography * The Bonny Bunch of Roses (1959) * Forty Years of Irish Piping (1974) * The Pure Drop (1974) * The Fox Chase (1974) * The Best of Irish Piping (1974) (this is The Pure Drop plus The Fox Chase) * Feidlim Toon Ri's Castle (1977) * The Ace and Deuce of Piping * The Wandering Minstrel (1977) * The Return from Fingal (1997) * Two Centuries of Celtic Music (2001) Anthologies (various artists) * Green Linnet 20th Anniversary Collection (1996) * Alan Lomax Sampler (1997) * Irish Pipe & Tin Whistle Songs - Various Artists * Traditional Dance Music of Ireland (1997) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.