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The Tall Teller

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By Charles Byrne, Martin Fone 
| wordpress.com
By the standards of the time William Daniel Jenkins was a veritable giant. When it recorded his death at the age of thirty-one in Edinburgh on March 24, 1798, the Staffordshire Advertiser noted that “his corpse measured seven feet three inches”. Employed at the Bank of England, Jenkins was so terrified that, because of his unusual height, his body would fall into the hands of anatomists upon his death that he obtained his employers’ permission to be buried in its Garden Court.
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Tracing the Origins of Sean-nós and Links to the Irish Harp Tradition

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By Charles Byrne, Amy Donaghey, 'Gealach na gCuanta', Pádraig Ó Cearbhaill
| The Journal of Music
Gealach na gCuanta is a substantial A4 publication of over 100 pages, in a bilingual format (Irish and English). The author, Doimnic Mac Giolla Bhríde, will be familiar to aficionados of traditional, unaccompanied singing in Irish, or sean-nós, as he is a prize-winning performer at the Oireachtas festival.
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Oran McConville death: Britain’s Got Talent star dies, aged 18

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By Charles Byrne
| Inkl
Tributes have been paid to a Britain’s Got Talent star who was killed in a car crash just six weeks after the untimely death of his father. Oran McConville, 18, was pronounced dead after the accident. He was sat in the front passenger seat of a grey Volkswagen Golf during a collision in the early hours of Saturday morning (5 April). The driver was arrested at the scene.
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