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Pecker Dunne, the Glossary

Patrick "Pecker" Dunne (1 April 1933 – 19 December 2012) was an Irish musician and seanchaí.^[1]

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20th-century Irish banjoists
21st-century Irish banjoists
Irish Traveller people
Irish male banjoists
Musicians from County Mayo

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Banjo

The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator.

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The Belfast Telegraph is a daily newspaper published in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Independent News & Media, which also publishes the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and various other newspapers and magazines in Ireland.

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Castlebar

Castlebar is the county town of County Mayo, Ireland.

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County Clare

County Clare (Contae an Chláir) is a county in the province of Munster in the Southern part of the republic of Ireland, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.

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County home (Ireland)

In the Irish Free State and Republic of Ireland, the county home was an institution which replaced workhouses from 1922 onwards.

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County Mayo

County Mayo is a county in Ireland.

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County Wexford

County Wexford (Contae Loch Garman) is a county in Ireland.

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Drimnagh

Drimnagh is a suburb in Dublin, Ireland to the south of the city between Walkinstown, Crumlin and Inchicore, bordered by the Grand Canal to the north and east.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Gaelic Athletic Association

The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; Cumann Lúthchleas Gael; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, Gaelic handball, and rounders.

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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Irish traditional music

Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland.

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Irish Travellers

Irish Travellers (an lucht siúil, meaning the walking people), also known as Pavees or Mincéirs (Shelta: Mincéirí), are a traditionally peripatetic indigenous ethno-cultural group originating in Ireland.

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Killimer

Killimer is a village in County Clare, Ireland, in a civil parish of the same name.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino,; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick.

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Margaret Barry

Margaret Barry (1917–1989) was an Irish Traveller, traditional singer and banjo player. Pecker Dunne and Margaret Barry are 20th-century Irish banjoists.

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Munster

Munster (an Mhumhain or Cúige Mumhan) is one of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the south of the island.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Pump organ

The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organs using free-reeds that generates sound as air flows past the free-reeds, the vibrating pieces of thin metal in a frame.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Richard Harris

Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer.

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Seanchaí

A seanchaí (or – plural: seanchaithe) is a traditional Gaelic storyteller or historian.

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Singing

Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice.

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Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea (born 31 October 1946) is an Irish actor of stage and screen.

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The Dubliners

The Dubliners were an Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group, named after its founding member; they subsequently renamed themselves The Dubliners.

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The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication.

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Trojan Eddie

Trojan Eddie is a 1996 British-Irish crime drama film directed by Gillies MacKinnon.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecker_Dunne

Pecker Dunne, the Glossary

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See also

20th-century Irish banjoists

21st-century Irish banjoists

Irish Traveller people

Irish male banjoists

Musicians from County Mayo

References