Remembering John Doherty – Traveller, Tinsmith and Fiddler

Remembering John Doherty – Traveller, Tinsmith and Fiddler

Monday, 27 February 2023, 4.00pm

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Venue: THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Organiser: An tOllamh Breandán Mac Suibhne / Email: [email protected]

Remembering John Doherty – Traveller, Tinsmith And Fiddler

Chair: Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute

Travellers in Time
Expanding the Past
Breandán Mac Suibhne, University of Galway

John Doherty’s Music
Floating Bows and Moving Clouds
Alun Evans
Queen’s University of Belfast

Alun Evans is an epidemiologist and the former director of the Centre for Public Health at the Queen’s University of Belfast. He was a young medical student in 1967 when he first met John Doherty, a master fiddler who belonged to a well-known Traveller family in County Donegal, and their friendship deepened when he worked as a locum in Glenties in the 1970s. In 1996 Ceirníní Cladaigh released recordings of John’s playing that Alun had made in 1968 and 1974 as a CD, The Floating Bow: Traditional Fiddle Music from Donegal, which includes a fine memoir of his friend.

Travellers Tomorrow
Expanding the Future
Eileen Flynn
Seanad Éireann

This event is supported by Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge and the Access Centre as part of Irish Traveller Ethnicity Week, 2023.

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Published by Journal of Music on 27 February 2023

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