Biography:Abram Beamish

Biographical notes
 Francis O'Neill wrote in Irish Folk Music: A Fascinating Hobby (1910): "Abram Sweetman Beamish, of Chicago, from whom we obtained the Buachaillin Ban, or the "Fairhaired Boy," "My Darling Asleep," and the "Knee-buckle" jigs, also the "Skibbereen Lasses," "Tie the Bonnet," "Dandy Denny Cronin" and the "Humors of Schull" reels, was a native of a parish adjoining the parish of Caheragh, in which the writer was born. Our ages are equal and we left Ireland about the same time, yet I never heard in my youth any of the tunes above named. The first and fifth only were known to the local musicians. Similarly most of my tunes were unfamiliar to Mr. Beamish."