Biography:James Sheedy

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James Sheedy


     
 Given name:     James
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 Family name:     Sheedy
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JAMES SHEEDY was a celebrated Munster piper about whom little is known. Joyce obtained the tune N:in 1852 from the whistling of farmer Dineen, who had learned it from Sheedy in his youth. N:Joyce noted Sheedy had "died a very old man, more than thirty years ago," making the probable N:hey-day of Sheedy in the late 18th century.