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[Identification of item], in the John Maguire Collection of Irish Dance Music #20250, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Processed by: Anne Wells and Meredith Kite, July 2020

Encoded by: Anne Wells, July 2020

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

Archival processing of the John Maguire Collection of Irish Dance Music was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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• Coleman, Michael, 1891-1945.
• Dance music--Ireland.
• Fiddle tunes--Ireland.
• Fiddlers--Ireland.
• Flute music--Ireland.
• Folk music--Ireland.
• Hornpipes--Ireland.
• Irish Americans--Music.
• Jigs--Ireland.
• Maguire, John, 1902-1976.
• Musicians--Ireland.
• Neary, Eleanor Kane.
• Reels (Music)--Ireland.
• Uilleann pipe music--Ireland.
• Uilleann pipe--Ireland.
• Waltzes--Ireland.

• Kevin Delaney Collection #20035
• Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025

John Maguire (1902-1976) was an Irish music collector, singer, storyteller, and farmer from Rosslea, County Fermanagh, Ireland. Maguire's music and life story are documented in an LP and book by song collector Robin Morton, both of which are titled Come Day, Go Day, God Send Sunday.

Audio recordings containing dubs of Irish dance music originally released on 78 rpm records from the 1920s until the 1940s, as well as dubs made in the 1970s of Irish American musicians from Chicago, Ill. Instruments played on the 1/4" open reel audio recordings include uilleann pipes, fiddle, flute, piano, recorder, and viola. Tune types represented are jigs, reels, hornpipes, waltzes, set dances, and airs. John Maguire (1902-1976), an Irish music collector, singer, storyteller, and farmer from Rosslea, County Fermanagh, Ireland, compiled the recordings from his personal collection and donated them to the Southern Folklife Collection. Of particular note is a complete set of the recordings of Michael Coleman (1889-1945), an Irish American fiddler originally from Ballymote, County Sligo, Ireland, and recordings of Eleanor Kane Neary, an Irish American pianist from Chicago, Ill. Other performers include Patsy Touhey, an Irish American Uilleann piper originally from Loughrea, County Galway; Michael Gallagher, Uilleann piper from County Leitrim; Joseph Gallager, a fiddler from County Leitrim; John McKenna, an Irish American flute player originally from County Leitrim; Leo Rowsome, (d. 1970s), an Irish American Uilleann piper originally from Dublin; James Morrison (b. ca. 1890), Irish American fiddler originally from Ballysadare, County Sligo; and various other Irish American and Irish musicians, mostly from counties Sligo and Leitrim, including Mrs P. Scully, Patsy Cawley, Michael Carney, and Angus Chisolm. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including a handwritten letter from John Maguire to Daniel W. Patterson, where Maguire mentions being sick from influenza, as well as a field collection cover sheet and tape logs prepared by former library staff. Tape logs contain song titles and notes on the informants and recordings presumably prepared by John Maguire and later transcribed by library staff.

• Audiotapes (FT-339-344)
• Field Notes (Folder 418), Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025