kenny wrote:
“vintagekits” - I’ve found out 2 possible ways for you to get a complete list of winners for each All-Ireland Fleadh. I’ve been to All-Irelands on 4 occasions, and have the programmes with the lists of competitors for 3 of them, 1976,1977, and 1982. Near the back of the programme is a list of all the winners from the previous year, in all the age groups. That means I have the results for the 3 years 1975, 1976 and 1981. I’ve posted 1975 below. I’ll do the others when I find the time. One thing you could do would be to contact Comhaltas, and ask them to put an appeal through their magazine “Treoir” for anyone who has any of the Fleadh programmes to get in touch with you and either email or photocopy you the page of results. “Treoir” is another place where results are listed, and I’ll have a look through the ones I have to see if there’s any information there for you.
Here are the 1975 results for all of the Senior Competitions, as listed in the 1976 programme :
{ I could make a pretty good guess at the first names of several, but only the initial is given, so I’ve left it at that }
Fiddle - Liz Carroll
2-Row Button Accordeon : P.O’Brien
3-Row Button Accordeon : J.Nolan
Concert Flute – D.Collis
Tin Whistle – S.O’Riain
Piano Accordeon - A.Morris
Concertina – G.Haugh
Uilleann Pipes – F.McLoughlin
Harp – M.Ni Chathasaigh
Mouth Organ – D.Epping
Banjo – S.O’Hagen
Piano – K.Taylor
Drums – A.Vaughan
Rogha Ghleas – S.Epping
Bodhran – T.Hayes
War Pipes – M.O’Malley
Fiddle – Slow Airs – P.O’Coill
Uilleann Pipes – Slow Airs – S.Casey
Concert Flute – Slow Airs – J.Lewis
Tin Whistle – Slow Airs – W.Patton *
Duets – J.Keane & L.Carroll
Trios – Nolan Ryan & Flanagan
Ceili Bands – Piper’s Club
Buion Rogha Ghleas – Acres
Singing – Irish – Ladies – Lena Bn. Ui She
Singing – Irish – Men – T.O’Duinnon
Singing – English – Ladies – M.O’Reilly
Singing – English – Men – P.Nolan
Whistling – P.Berry
Lilting – J.Harris
Amhran Nua Ceaptha – M.McGinley
Newly Composed Song – J.Cronin
[ * Your list already has Carmel Gunning as the Tin Whistle Slow-Air winner for 1975. ]
Kenny ya legend! Good man! I will get those on asap
I made another list - this time of locations of All Ireland since 1951 - missing a few years - maybe you know where it was in those years -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_venues_for_All_Ireland_Fleadh_Cheoil_Na_h%C3%89ireann