Francis O’Neill

Posted on 2013/11/13 by

Bootcamp: Irish Music Club of Chicago

Francis O’Neill’s seminal collection Music of Ireland, and Irish Minstrels and Musicians, his principal book on the subject of his collection endeavours, both contain a photograph of Chicago’s Irish Music Club (Irish Traditional Music Archive; O’Neill, 479). The photo is dated as having been taken between 1901 and 1909, and shows 26 members of this Read More

Posted on 2013/11/03 by

Probe: Deep Roots and Knotty Branches: Tree Diagrams and Irish Traditional Music

How may tree diagrams deepen our understanding of cultural phenomena? Are some forms of knowledge better suited than others to “tree-ish” representations?   Francis O’Neill was born in 1848 in Tralibane, County Cork. He would sail the world as a crewmember on a British merchant ship before settling in Chicago, where he eventually rose to Read More