We chatted a bit about Sean over at the pipes forum: Sean McGuire - Piper as well?
September 18th
Tom Morrison
[quote=“Kevin L. Rietmann”]We chatted a bit about Sean over at the pipes forum: Sean McGuire - Piper as well?
Thanks for that Kevin. Ineresting reading.
I also saw that you had loaded up two more early McGuire fiddle recordings-Lovely stuff.
Also found some great Michael Coalman on the www.archive.org site. Fantastic! Also looks like there are a lot of other old style recording I want to listen to when I have time, or maybe I’ll just keep playing these two!
What a great site.
Kevin
Uhoh, I think you got hoodwinked. It wasn’t sold to you from a suitcase by a guy on the street, was it? 
I think we have Kevin to thank for the Coleman trax at archive.org.
Incidentally, I see the Sean McGuire tracks credit “unknown - piano”.
Boys of the Lough, Reavy’s - Sean Maguire
Fiddle solo, Decca or London label, unknown - piano. This recording was reissued on an LP, the Irish Phonograph, which is now out of print, and I only have a dub of it, so can’t supply discographical information. The second reel is the first commercial recording of a composition of Ed Reavy, famous Cavan/Philadelphia fiddler/composer. His title for it was the Hunter’s House; innumerable recordings over the years have tunes simply titled “Reavy’s,” though…
It’s worth speculating that the pianist could be his wife, Josephine Keegan, who accompanies him on another LP I own that also contains Reevey’s Reel. Here’s her blurb in the liner notes:
Josephine Keegan (Mrs Sean McGuire), his piano accompanist, began her musical career at teh age of six. She studied piano, concert flute and won two Gold Medals for Irish Traditional Violin playing. Josephine first preformed on radio when she was fourteen. She also appears frequently on British and IRish TV and Radio. [Notes to Celtic LP SCX 55, Sean McGuire Volume One]
I Don’t underconstumble. If it’s not the real thing it’s a blowing good copy? I have been hoodwinked and might be again but I don’t think I was here.
Kevin
I was just joking that an album by “Michael Coalman” might be like a watch by “Rolox”. 
Rolox? Sounds like a brand of cheese.
Some of these 78s used to belong to an old piper in San Francisco, Dan Sullivan; Dan gave them to his student Denis Brooks, who left them behind in Seattle when he moved to Cork. I dubbed the records myself, and wrote out the disco. information too, which I hadn’t bothered to fish out. The piano-ist on the Magurie record is Sean O’Driscoll, London P18239. They list this M. Solomon as arranger; also inform us that Sean is “All Ireland Undefeated Champion Since 1949.”
September 21st
Tom Morrison
October 5th
Tom Morrison
Thank you Kevin, you’re doing a fantastic service.
S1m0n quoted:
‘Josephine Keegan (Mrs Sean McGuire), his piano accompanist, began her musical career at teh age of six. She studied piano, concert flute and won two Gold Medals for Irish Traditional Violin playing. Josephine first performed on radio when she was fourteen. She also appears frequently on British and IRish TV and Radio. [Notes to Celtic LP SCX 55, Sean McGuire Volume One]’
This would be remarkable news to Josie and she has never been married! Having met the late Seán and his (one and only) wife I can also confirm that she bore no resemblance whatsoever to Josie. 
The notes are credited to “J. Harper and L. Daly”, whoever they were, and appeared on a Canadian pressing of Celtic recording SCX 55 - Sean McGuire, Volume One".
I’m glad I found this thread! (I seem to find sticky threads almost invisible.) There are a lot of goodies on www.archive.org, and following the links above has been fun!
I really enjoyed this set of reels from Leo Rowsome
(pipes with fiddle & drum). I like the old style reprise of the first reel after the second.
By means of contrast how about this James Morrison period piece?
Or Tom Ennis (pipes) playing The Coulin?
The Comhaltas Archive has a couple of sides from Michael A Glynn, unfortunately very brief even when you register, whoever dubbed them only gave us about 30 seconds.
No comments here in quite a while but I have to say this:
THANK YOU!!!
I’ve visited C&F for many years, actually since Dale started it, and only joined the forums very recently, but this alone makes it all worthwhile. I’ve been looking for these old 78 rpm recordings for years, including compilation CDs, to little avail. Bravo for making them available. I’ll be spending a lot of time studying them and learning. This is a window onto the state of Irish fluting prior to the “grand unification” via wide dissemination of (ironically) recordings. Personally, I really like some of the older regional styles that tended to be subsumed over time.
Regardless, very very cool and I’m extremely grateful.
- Bill
Glad you liked hearing these old discs, Bill. I hear from happy customers from time to time.
Just by chance, I just stumbled across your posts yesterday while i was searching for 50’s irish music. Specifically the Cavan orchestra posts from 1955. I was delighted to find the site, and i am even more delighted to find the person responsible. Thank you. What Luck! I really dont come here that often. I was actually going to post a thread over at the session referencing your work this afternoon. Instead i will just direct them over here!
Is there a way to search for the full list of what you put up to make it easier to find them?
About the only way to do this is to search for ‘78rpm Irish’ in all media - not just music, that only gives a couple dozen hits for some reason. My contributions are the ones with the detailed descriptions. 
Most of what you’ll get is me and the raretunes.org guy, who’s a Scottish trad buff.
Glad to hear from another fan.