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Life
1882-1937; b. Belfast; first organist of St Peter’s Church, Antrim Rd., still in boyhood; began collecting Gaelic songs in Co. Donegal, 1899; met Padraic Colum, who translated many of the song he collected, incl.
‘The Star of the Co. Down’; ‘I Know Where I’m Going’; ‘The Next Market Fair’, &c.; proceeded to Royal College of Music, London; made celebrated folk-song arrangements, often printed;
d. Brighton. FDA
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