Finn Ó Haughluinn, Irish musician, died 1490. Ó Haughluinn is described in his

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in the

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as ''Chief Tympanist of Ireland.'' No further details of his life are given or are known to survive. His obit was one of the last of any musician in the

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annals, and apparently the very last reference in classical Irish literature to the An Tiompan Gàidhealach, which was being steadily replaced by the

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References

* ''What was the Tiompán? A problem in ethnohistorical organology. Evidence in Irish literature'',

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, p. 53–88, ''Jahrbuch fur Musikalische Volks – un Volkerkunde'', ix, 1978. * ''Timpán/Tiompán'', Ann Buckley, in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', London, 1980 * ''Timpán/Tiompán'', Ann Buckley, in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments'', London, 1986 * ''Musical instruments in Ireland 9th 14th centuries: A review of the organological evidence'', Ann Buckley, pp. 13–57, ''Irish Musical Studies'' i, Blackrock,

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, 1990 * ''Music and musicians in medieval Irish society'', Ann Buckley, pp. 165–190, ''Early Music'' xxviii, no.2, May 2000 * ''Music in Prehistoric and Medieval Ireland'', Ann Buckley, pp. 744–813, in ''A New History of Ireland'', volume one, Oxford, 2005. * ''The Annals of Ireland by Friar John Clyn'', pp. 95–96, 95–101, 102, 194, edited by Bernadette Williams,

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, Dublin, 2007.

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* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005D/index.html {{DEFAULTSORT:O Haughluinn, Finn Year of birth unknown 1490 deaths Medieval Gaels from Ireland 15th-century Irish musicians People of the Tudor period Irish hammered dulcimer players