Dinny Delaney
Denis "Dinny" Delaney (6 August 1841 – 29 November 1919) was a well-known blind Irish piper who lived most of his life in Ballinasloe. The Dinny Delaney Festival is celebrated annually in Ballinasloe in his honour. Delaney was born in Tulrush, in the County Roscommon part of Ballinasloe parish, but lived most of his life in Ballinasloe. Biography His parents died not long after he was born, leaving him and his sister orphaned. He caught smallpox at the age of 13, leaving him permanently blinded. He was taught to play uilleann pipes when he was a teenager by a travelling musician named Mickey Willis. In 1897, he joined uilleann piping competitions, earning multiple prizes and becoming more well known. It was also around this time that his playing of songs on his pipes were recorded, many of these are still preserved and can be listened to today. In 1916 He was arrested after playing ''Repeal of the Union'' outside Mountbellew police station in the wake of the Easter Rising ...
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Tulrush
Tulrush is a small townland on the River Suck near Ballinasloe, Ireland. It is approximately in area and located in the historical barony of Moycarn in County Roscommon. As of the 2011 census, Tulrush townland had a population of 16 people. As it is on the eastern bank of the River Suck, Tulrush is a part of County Roscommon. It is a part of civil parish of Creagh, which spans into County Galway. Tulrush was listed alongside Galway townlands in ''Griffith's valuation'' of 1868. Tulrush is bounded on one side by the River Suck, main tributary to the River Shannon which it joins approx further on at Shannonbridge. Two River Suck fords (one at Pollboy and the other named "Riley's") were local crossing points. These fords were used in 1691 during the Williamite War in Ireland by the army of the Jacobite general Marquis de St Ruth, moving from the Siege of Athlone to take part in the Battle of Aughrim, where he was defeated by the Williamite general Godert de Ginkell. In the 18 ...
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