Paddy Conneely (or Coneely) (died 11 September 1851) was a blind Irish piper and singer.Jimmy O'Brien Moran: "Conneely oneely Paddy atrick, in: ''The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland'', ed. by Harry White and Barra Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013), p. 234.

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He was known as "The

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Piper", referring to his long-time period of residence in this region. Conneely was supported by

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, who presented Conneely with his pipes, made in the 1820s. His music was transcribed by a number of collectors including

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, amounting to some 180 tunes. Most of his music manuscripts are now housed in the

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, and the

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's library. Frederic William Burton painted his portrait in 1839, and an engraved portrait based on the painting was published in an article by George Petrie in an 1840 issue of ''The Irish Penny Journal'', making him probably the first folk musician to have had his likeness adorn the cover of a widely read journal. Upon his death, his two sons were taken into care by the Christian Brothers.

Bibliography

* George Petrie: "Paddy Coneely, the Galway Piper", in: ''The Irish Penny Journal'' vol. 1 (1840) no. 4, pp. 105–108. * James O'Brien Moran: ''Paddy Conneely, the Galway Piper: The Legacy of a Pre-famine Folk Musician'' (PhD thesis, University of Limerick, 2006)

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* http://billhaneman.ie/IMM/IMM-XIX.html * http://www.itma.ie/digitallibrary/print-collection/citizen/ * http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/people/frederic_william_burton.htm Year of birth missing 1851 deaths 19th-century Irish male musicians Irish blind musicians Irish male uilleann pipers Musicians from County Galway 19th-century Irish uilleann pipers {{Ireland-musician-stub

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