Nioclás Tóibín (5 February 1928 – 19 September 1994)
[See photograph of plaque] was a
sean-nós singer from the
Déise tradition of
County Waterford
County Waterford () is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and is part of the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. It is named after the city of Waterford. ...
in
Ireland
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. Nioclás was the winner of the main competition at
Oireachtas na Gaeilge
Oireachtas na Gaeilge (, "The Irish (language) Gathering") is an annual arts festival of Irish culture, which has run since the 1890s. Inspired by the Welsh eisteddfodau, the festival has included different events connected with Irish langua ...
(this award is now called
Corn Uí Riada) consecutively from 1961 to 1963. This was the principal national singing prize in Ireland at the time.
Born in the
Gaeltacht
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The districts were first officially recognised ...
parish of
An Rinn (Ring) in County Waterford. His father and mother, Séamas Tóibín and Maighréad Ní Sheanacháin,
were well known singers in the sean-nós style who had inherited the tradition from their own parents. Nioclás was known to sing songs such as 'Ar Éirinn Ní Neosfainn Cé Hí', 'Na Connerys' and 'Róisín Dubh'.
See also
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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 ma ...
References
External links
Nioclás TóibínNioclás singing Róisín Dubh (on YouTube)Portrait of Nioclás on TG4 (on YouTube) in Irish
1928 births
1994 deaths
20th-century Irish male singers
Musicians from County Waterford
Sean-nós singers
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