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Michael Collins

Love is a loosing Game

3. Padraig & Nora O’Keeffe | Glountane, near Castleisland, Co. Kerry, 1958

Nora and Padraig O’Keeffe were two of nine children born to John O’Keeffe of Boherbue, Co. Cork and Margaret O’Callaghan of Doonaslea, near Kiskeam Co. Cork. John was the principal of Glountane National school and he and his family lived in the house adjacent to the school. He was joined in the school by his daughter Nora as an assistant teacher in 1913 and when he died in 1915, his son Padraig became principal of the school. Padraig held that position until he resigned in 1920, after which he lived a life of a travelling music master - now recognized as the last and one of the greatest travelling music masters in the history of Irish traditional music. On 28th November 1918, Nora married Thomas Carmody, a farmer’s son from Knocknagoshel, and their son, Thomas (Sonny) was born in Castleisland on 21st November 1921. On 27th July 1948, Sonny married Eileen Sheehan in Birmingham, England; she was born on 17th  September 1925 at Tureencahill, Gneeveguilla, Rathmore, Co. Kerry. Sonny immigrated to the US in 1957, arriving in Detroit, Michigan on 30th January. Eileen and their young children joined him the following year, arriving in Detroit on 3rd March 1958. The family eventually moved to Chicago where they remained for the rest of their lives. 
Prior to Eileen’s departure to America in 1958, she and her children joined her in-laws, Nora and Padraig O’Keeffe and neighbors in Glountane, to make a recording of music and song to bring to her husband in America. Among those in attendance that evening were Nora Carmody (née O’Keeffe), Padraig O’Keeffe, Eileen Carmody (Sonny’s wife), Mrs. Sheehan (Eileen’s mother), Andrew (?), Noreen(?), Lizzy (?) and Eileen & Sonny’s young children.

2 Nora Carmody And Children  And Padraig O Keeffe - Polkas

No. 1 Greetings To Sonny From Glountane

College final year production radio documentary on homelessness. Produced by Aidan Kiely.
Song: No Place Like Homeless written by Aidan Kiely, music composed by Jim Quinn, engineered by Liam Mc Carthy.

No Place Like Homeless

Just uploading my own version of these songs for my own listening and if anyone else wants to listen also.  It is not for any monetary gain and no plagarism is intended enjoy the singing

In - The - Arms - Of - An - Angel

Come - My - Little - Son

Blue - Eyes - Crying - In - The - Rain

A recently found recording from the attic of Denis Murphy’s house  in Lisheen Gneeveguilla. Recorded by Seamus Ennis and with introduction by Denis’s wife Julia Mary. Kindly donated to the Archive by Mick Sheehan a nephew of Julia Mary’s who inherited the house .

Lisheen Attic Tape Seamus Ennis vists Denis Murphy

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