Reg Hall English, Irish & Scottish Folk Music & Customs Collection
Tommy Healy interview, part 01
- Add a note
Log in to add a note at the bottom of this page.
- All notes
- My notes
- Hide notes
- Add to playlist
Log in to add this item to one of your personal lists.
- Add to favourites
Log in to add and display this item in your personal list of favourites on the right hand side of this page.
The British Library Board acknowledges the intellectual property rights of those named as contributors to this recording and the rights of those not identified.
Legal and ethical usage »
Type
sound
Duration
01:34:20
Cultures
Irish
Shelf mark
2CDR0001616 (copy of C903/377)
Subjects
Irish folk songs and music
Recording date
1987-10-28
Is part of (Collection)
Reg Hall Archive
Recording locations
Interviewee's home in Holloway, London, England, UK
Interviewees
Healy, Tommy (speaker, male)
Interviewers
Hall, Reg (speaker, male)
Recordist
Hall, Reg
Abstract
Tommy Healy talks about Michael Gorman (Irish fiddle player resident in London); coming to England from Sligo in 1944; the first London pub to have Irish music (the Black Cap in Camden Town); learning to play fiddle from Michael Gorman; other London Irish musicians in the 1950s including Martin Byrne and Eddie Pierce; working on railways and in construction; playing in Camden pubs (The Camden Stores, The Laurel Tree, The Bedford); Irish dance halls in London (the Galtimore in Cricklewood); benefit dances for injured or sick Irish workers; Margaret Barry (Irish singer); feises in Sligo; dance competitions in Ireland and London; coming to England to do agricultural work in Gloucestershire; farming in Ireland; the Sligo style of playing fiddle compared with that of Co. Clare.
Description
Interviewee's note: flute player from Mantua, Co. Sligo; came to live in England in 1944. Item note: Interview notes in World and Traditional Music file at British Library Sound Archive. Item note: Possibly a final edit for a proposed Leader Records LP that never materialized. Apparently Bill Leader's studio copies of field recordings from various sources, including Ken Stubbs and Topic Records.
Metadata record: