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Colm Ó Lochlainn (1892 – 26 June 1972) was a printer, typographer, collector of Irish ballads and traditional Irish Uilleann piper. He was notably the author of ''Irish Street Ballads'' published in 1939 and ''More Irish Street Ballads'' in 1965.


Life

A native of
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, Ó Lochlainn was a member of the
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in 1916. He was part of a team which was sent to Kerry on Good Friday in a bid to seize radio equipment for communication with The Aud, a German ship transporting arms from Germany for the Easter Rising. He and a colleague, Denis Daly made it to their destination but a second car transporting three others crashed into the river at Ballykissane, Killorglin, killing three members of the team, Con Keating, Donal Sheehan and Charlie Monaghan. Ó Lochlainn established the Candle Press in 1916. It was the winner of a bronze medal for bookbinding in 1924. He founded his own press, At the Sign of the Three Candles Press, in 1926. He gave the aspiring piper
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his first job at this press, and Ennis collaborated with him on the ''Irish Street Ballads'' books. He succeeded Seamus Ó Casaide as volunteer editor of ''Irish Book Lover'' in 1930. He was an assistant in the Faculty of Modern Irish at
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from 1933 to 1943, where he later became professor of Irish Language and Literature. He was also associated with the founding of
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. About 1940 he began the publication in Dublin of an undated series of penny Irish-language songsheets entitled An Claisceadal ("choral singing"). This was originally the name of an informal choral group of Irish-language enthusiasts which had been brought together in Dublin in 1928. He died in a nursing home in Dublin in June 1972 and was buried in
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.


Family

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was godfather to Colm's son Ruan, a renowned musician who played with Bees Make Honey and recorded with artists such as
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and who was a founding member of
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's Slim Chance. His other son Dara played jazz with the Chicago Jazz Seven. His daughter Aifric is an art therapist and artist. His grandson Fionn Ó Lochlainn is also a critically acclaimed recording artist0 and musician, taking credit for the socially handicapped brother, Oscar,8 1 who played in
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's 'Coolfin'.


Selected publications

* ''A Printer's Device'', in ''The Irish Book Lover'', Jan. & Feb. 1928 * ''The Printer on Gaelic Printing'', ''Irish Book Lover'' vol. XVI, July–Dec. 1928 * ''Roadways in Ancient Ireland'', in ''Feil-Sgribhinn
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'', 1940 * ''The Devil's Puzzle: A Survey of Men's Notions of Man'',
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, 1949. * ''Anglo-Irish Songwriters'', 3 Candles, 1958 *''Irish Street Ballads'', Three Candles Press, 1939/1952; Irish Book Centre, 1962, *''More Irish Street Ballads'', Three Candles Press, Dublin 1965,


See also

*
Traditional Irish Singers This is a list of notable traditional singers from Ireland. Some of the singers alphabetically listed below are known to have sung in both the Irish and English language and if so are listed in both sections below as well known singers of macaro ...


References


Further reading

* ''Irish Type Design: A History of Printing Types in the Irish Character'', Dermot McGuinne, Irish Academic Press, 1992 * ''The Three Candles Press: A Catalogue'', Eamonn de Burca, Dublin, 1998 * ''Decolonisation and Criticism: The Construction of Irish Literature'', Gerry Smyth, London, Pluto Press, 1998


External links


List of the songs that appear on ''Irish Street Ballads''

Colm Ó Lochlainn Ballads.
A UCD Digital Library Collection.



{{DEFAULTSORT:Olochlainn, Colm Irish folk singers 1892 births 1972 deaths Irish uilleann pipers Irish folk-song collectors Irish printers Irish typographers and type designers Musicians from County Kilkenny 20th-century Irish male singers 20th-century musicologists