Eddie Duffy (1894–1986) was a traditional
Irish music
Irish music is music that has been created in various genres on the island of Ireland.
The indigenous music of the island is termed Irish traditional music (or Irish folk music). It has remained vibrant through the 20th and into the 21st ...
ian. Many of his songs and tunes came from his mother, who played the
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...
.
Music
He was influenced by the playing of William Carroll and Laurence Nugent, from Lack,
County Fermanagh
County Fermanagh ( ; ) is one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of six counties of Northern Ireland.
The county covers an area of and had a population of 63,585 as of 2021. Enniskillen is the ...
. His name is now internationally known since he passed on many tunes and songs to
Cathal McConnell
Cathal McConnell (born 1944) is an Irish musician and singer best known as the mainstay of traditional band The Boys of the Lough, of which he is a founder member. His main instruments are the Irish flute and the tin whistle.
Following a lifetim ...
of the group
The Boys of the Lough
The Boys of the Lough is a Scottish-Irish Celtic music band active since the 1970s.
Early years
Their first album, called ''Boys of the Lough'' (1972) consisted of Aly Bain (fiddle), Cathal McConnell (flute), Dick Gaughan (vocals and guitar) a ...
.
Eddie Duffy and Mick Hoy Memorial Traditional Music Festival
In memory of Eddie Duffy, the Eddie Duffy and Mick Hoy Memorial Traditional Music Festival takes place every year on the second weekend in October in Derrygonnelly.
See also
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Irish flute
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Mick Hoy (musician)
Michael John Hoy (1913 – 12 June 2000), singer, fiddler, composer, and storyteller, was born in Monea in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. In his youth he was hired at the Derrygonnelly Fair by a farmer who played the fiddle. It was from this ...
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Male folk singers from Northern Ireland
Male flautists from Northern Ireland
Musicians from County Fermanagh
1986 deaths
1894 births
20th-century male singers from Northern Ireland
20th-century Irish flautists
20th-century folk musicians from Northern Ireland