Tannahill
Tannahill may refer to: * Jordan Tannahill, Canadian playwright and filmmaker * Mary Tannahill, (1863-1951) American artist * Reay Tannahill, author of ''Food in History'' (1973) and other works * Robert Tannahill (1774 — 1810), Scottish poet * The Tannahill Weavers, traditional Scottish musical group active since 1968 See also * Tannehill (other) Tannehill may refer to: People * Adamson Tannehill (1750–1820), United States Representative from Pennsylvania * Ivan Ray Tannehill (1890–1959), American meteorologist * Jesse Tannehill, (1874–1956) Major League Baseball pitcher * Lee Tann ...

Robert Tannahill
Robert Tannahill (3 June 1774 – 17 May 1810) was a Scottish poet of labouring class origin. Known as the 'Weaver Poet', he wrote poetry in English and lyrics in Scots in the wake of Robert Burns. Life Robert Tannahill was born in Castle Street in Paisley to Janet (née Pollock) and James Tannahill, a silk gauze weaver. Soon after his birth the family moved to a newly built cottage in nearby Queen Street, which became both family home and weaving shop. Tannahill had a delicate constitution and a limp, due to a slight deformity in his right leg. On leaving school at age 12, he was apprenticed to his father as a handloom weaver. It was during this time that he began to show an interest in poetry. With his apprenticeship completed, Tannahill left Paisley in late 1779 to work in Bolton, Lancashire. He returned in late 1801 to support his family. His father died soon after his return and he cared for his infirm mother. As he reported in a letter to a friend, "My brother Hugh and ...
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Mary Tannahill
Mary Harvey Tannahill (January 11, 1863 – June 21, 1951) was an American painter, printmaker, embroiderer and batik maker. She studied in the United States and Europe and spent 30 summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with the artist colony there. She was instructed by Blanche Lazzell there and assumed the style of the Provincetown Printers. She exhibited her works through a number of artist organizations. A native of North Carolina, she spent much of her career based in New York. Early life Tannahill was born on January 11, 1863, on "Kinderhook", the family estate in Warren County, North Carolina. Her parents were Sallie Jones Sims and Robert Tannahill, a Confederate soldier and businessman who was active in Petersburg, Virginia, and New York City. He moved the family to New York in 1865 and they lived at 44 East 65th Street. Her father worked as a cotton factor and between 1880 and 1882 was president of the New York Cotton Exchange. The family had a home on Lake Mahopac ...
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Jordan Tannahill
Jordan Tannahill is a Canadian author, playwright, filmmaker, and theatre director. His novels and plays have been translated into twelve languages, and honoured with a number of prizes including two Governor General's Literary Awards."Thomas King wins Governor General’s award for fiction"
'' The Globe and Mail'', November 18, 2014. His debut novel, ''Liminal'', was honoured with France's 2021 Prix des Jeunes Libraires. His second novel, ''The Listeners'' was a Canadian bestseller, and was shortlisted for the 2021

Reay Tannahill
Reay Tannahill (9 December 1929 – 2 November 2007) was a British historian, non-fiction writer, and novelist, best known perhaps for two non-fiction bestsellers: ''Food in History'' and ''Sex in History''. She also wrote under the pseudonym Annabel Laine. Her novel ''Passing Glory'' won in 1990 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Biography Personal life Reay Tannahill was born on 9 December 1929 in Glasgow, Scotland, where she was brought up. Her forename was the maiden name of her mother, Olive Reay. She was educated at Shawlands Academy, and obtained an MA in History and a postgraduate certificate in Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow. In 1958, she married Michael Edwardes; the marriage ended in divorce in 1983 and he died in 1990. Until her death on 2 November 2007 she lived in a terraced house in London near Tate Britain. Career Before she started to write, she worked as a probation officer, advertising copywriter, news ...
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The Tannahill Weavers
The Tannahill Weavers are a band which performs traditional Scottish music. Releasing their first album in 1976, they became notable for being one of the first popular bands to incorporate the sound of the Great Highland Bagpipe in an ensemble setting, and in doing so helped to change the sound of Scottish traditional music. In 2011 the band were inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame. The band was formed in 1968 and practised in a back room of the McKay family's rented council house at 41 St. Ninian's Road, Hunterhill, Paisley. The band first performed at St. Peter's Folk Club, Glenburn, Paisley which was run by Pat Doherty, father of Weavers' founding member Neil Doherty. As of 2021, they continue to tour and release new recordings. They are named after Scottish poet Robert Tannahill, known as the 'Weaver Poet,' and have recorded several of his songs. Members The current members of the band are: * Roy Gullane ( guitar, vocals) * Phil Smillie (flute, ...
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