Tomás Ó Canainn (born 1930) is an Irish Uilleann piper, accordion player, singer, composer and writer. He was a founder of the group Na Fili with fiddler Matt Cranitch and whistle player Tom Barry in the late 1960s and 1970s. They gained considerable popularity and recorded several albums.
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Ó Canainn was born in Pennyburn, Ireland on the outskirts of Derry but he later moved to Cork where he became Dean of Engineering at the University. He also took over the Irish music lectures from Seán Ó Riada at the College after his death in 1971 and taught music at the Cork School of music. Ó Canainn's daughters also play, violin, viola and cello and all 3 three appear with him on his last solo release.
1971 Farewell To Connacht. Outlet SOLP 1010, 1971. Reissued on CD as Outlet PTICD 1010. Tomás Ó Canainn (uillean pipes, accordion, and vocal), Matt Cranitch (fiddle), Tom Barry (whistle).[1][2]
1972 Three. Outlet SOLP 1017. Reissued on CD as Outlet PTICD 1017.[1]
1974 A Kindly Welcome
1980 With Pipe and Song 1. Theodore Street/Pope's Quay/Dun Ciovain
2. Francey
3. Henry mcDermot Roe
4. Deirdre's Lament
5. Limerick's Lamentation
6. The Groves of Glanmire
7. Union Quay/Tam's Jig
8. Pauline's Polka/Claudine's Polka
9. Amen, A Iosa
10.An Sceipin Droighneach (The Blackthorn)
11.John Twiss
12.Saint Anthony's Road/The Moss Road to Dungiven
13.Rachad-sa 'smo Cheaiti (My Kitty and I Will Go Walking)
14.At Swim With Two Birds! (Ag snámh le dhá éan!)/Ard barra Jig
1998 The Pennyburn Piper Presents: Uilleann Pipes 1 The pratie in the gander’s whole/Donnybrook fair/Sixpenny money
2 Pennyburn hornpipe/The jolly beggarman/The Z-transform
3 Máthig túanocht (If you come tonight)
4 Eibhlín a rúin (Eileen darling)
5 Shoe the donkey/Cook in the kitchen/Dungourney battery
6 Iníon an fhaoit (White’s daughter)
7 Úna’s Boston reel/ The peeler’s jacked/Old Denmark
8 Aisling gheal (Bright vision)
9 Síle ní ghadhra (Sheila O’Gara)
10 Planxty montenotte
11 Tá tart ar m’anam (My soul thirsts)
12 De bharr na gCnoc (Over the mountains)
13 The blackbird
14 The Verdant Braes of Screen
15 Gather round the fire * Britches full of stitches * Captain byng
Traditional Music in Ireland (Music Sales Corporation. January 1997)
Tomás' Tunebook (Ossian. December 31, 1997)
Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland(Ossian. July 31, 2005)
Songs of Cork (Gilbert Dalton, Ltd. 1978)
Home to Derry (Appletree Press (IE) January 2004)
A Lifetime of Notes Tomás' own autobiography. (Collins Press. January 1, 1996)
Seán Ó Riada: His Life and Work(Collins Pr. June 30, 2004
Melos a book of Tomás' poetry in English. (Clog; First Edition edition January 1, 1987)
Dornán Dánta a book of Tomás' poetry in Irish.
Tomás won the All-Ireland solo piping title and is known as "The Pennyburn Piper". Hence the title of his album recorded in 1998 with Neil Martin The Pennyburn piper presents: Uilleann Pipes, on which he also sings.