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Larry Redican Jnr.’s memoir of his father also tells of a night when Belfast fiddle great Seán McGuire wowed the crowd in their Park Slope, Brooklyn living room with an energetic solo performance. McGuire, perhaps the only fiddler back in Ireland who really impressed Lad O’Beirne’s circle, made several visits to New York City and we are fortunate that some of his playing from those trips has been preserved among the many reel-to-reel tapes donated to ITMA by the families of Louis Quinn and Charlie Mulvihill.

  • The flax in bloom, reel / Seán McGuire, fiddle

  • The maids of Castlebar, reel / Seán McGuire, fiddle ; James Lad O'Beirne, piano

  • Roaring Mary, reel / Seán McGuire, fiddle

  • The Laird of Drumblair [comp. James Scott Skinner], strathspey ; Seán McGuire's reel [comp. Bert Murray] / Seán McGuire, fiddle ; James Lad O'Beirne, piano

  • The mathematician [comp. James Scott Skinner], hornpipe / Seán McGuire, fiddle ; James Lad O'Beirne, piano

  • The bonnie lass of Bon Accord [comp. James Scott Skinner], march / Seán McGuire, fiddle ; James Lad O'Beirne, piano

  • The international reel ; The skylark, reel / Seán McGuire, fiddle ; James Lad O'Beirne, piano

  • The boys of the lough, reel / Seán McGuire, fiddle ; James Lad O'Beirne, piano

  • The mason's apron, reel / Seán McGuire, fiddle ; James Lad O'Beirne, piano

  • The beeswing [comp. James Hill], hornpipe / Seán McGuire, fiddle

  • The banks, hornpipe / Seán McGuire, fiddle ; James Lad O'Beirne, piano

Larry Redican ; unidentified ; unidentified ; unidentified ; Seán McGuire ; Louis Quinn / Unidentified photographer. New York, 1957. Image courtesy Sean Quinn
Sean Quinn, fiddle ; Seán McGuire, fiddle / Unidentified photographer. New York, 1956. Image courtesy Sean Quinn
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