Tom Lenihan
Tom Lenihan (1908-1990) was a well known Irish traditional singer out of Milltown Malbay, County Clare, Ireland.
Tom and Margaret Lenihan (born Vaughan) lived in a farmhouse in Knockbrack, a few miles outside Miltown Malbay. He was a farmer and the local butcher.
According to the sleevenotes of the CD Around the Hills of Clare:[1]
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Tom had a very large repertoire and positive ideas about singing. He insisted that the story was most important aspect; the singer's involvement with the song was paramount. To him it was vital that the singer used speech pat-terns, made sense of the words, singing them as close as possible to the way one would speak; to fit the tune to the words, not to make the words fit the tune. One can appreciate why Tom had so many narrative songs in his repertoire; his attitude to singing is illustrated on the two tracks of speech. |
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Recordings
Solo albums
- Paddy's Panacea, 1978, Topic Records[2]
- The Mount Callan Garland: songs from the repertoire of Tom Lenihan of Knockbrack, Miltown Malbay, county Clare. 1994. Collected and edited by Tom Munnelly with music transcriptions by Marian Deasy.Double cassette, accompanied by a book.[3]
Anthologies
- Irish Voices, 1997, Topic[4]
- Hurry The Jug, 1996, Globestyle[5]
- Come All My Lads that Follow The Plough (Voice of the People Vol 5), 1998, Topic[6]
- They Ordered Their Pints of Beer and Sherry, 1998, Topic (only one song)[7]
- As Me and My Love Sat Courting: Songs of Love (Voice of the People Vol 15), 1998, Topic (only one song)[8]
- Around the Hills of Clare[9]
Unpublished
External link
References
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Lenihan, Tom |
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| Short description |
Irish traditional singer |
| Date of birth |
1905 |
| Place of birth |
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| Date of death |
1990 |
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