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Re: Excerpts from Irish newspapers
Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:14:55 +0000 (UTC)
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Dennis Ahern...
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From The Cork Examiner, 16 January 1878 -
THE ATTEMPT TO SHOOT MR. TIGHE.
The Dublin Gazette contains a proclamation offering £100 reward
for the arrest of the person or persons who fired at Mr. Tighe, Bank
Manager in Ballina a few weeks ago. The bank also offered £100 reward.
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Phil C....
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Can I just check something out with you (or anyone else who's familiar
with Irish newspapers)? I'm making one last attempt to write up a
truly accurate well-sourced account of my 3xg grandfather before
circumstances may force me to give up. I want to send it to DNB, New
Grove and various institutions to correct a wealth of misinformation.
Frederick Nicholls Crouch was English but enjoyed some minor celebrity
as a "lecturer on Irish minstrelsy" - that's his primary description
on his lithographed portrait of ca1840 in the British Museum. This
career seems to have been based on the huge international popularity
of the song Kathleen Mavourneen. It was first published by 1837 in
England but its success seems to have taken off when it was published
by a major London firm a few years later. He seems to have followed it
up with other "Irish" songs to cash in on its success.
His memoirs (from a music magazine 1887 Boston, Mass) claim briefly
that he lectured in England, Ireland Scotland and Wales (early 1840s?
- events have been much rearranged, possibly by whoever interviewed
him, so it's hard to be sure.) I suspect that he probably never
actually visited Ireland in his life but it's hard to prove a
negative. He was sufficiently well known at that time for any visit to
Ireland to lecture on Irish music to have been publicised or commented
on in the local press - I don't know what they'd have made of him
locally. I've never found any reference to it.
Do you recall ever coming across any reference to him at all in Irish
newspapers? Thanks for any help.
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