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Larry Redican Jnr.’s memoir of his father also tells of a night when Belfast fiddle great Seán McGuire wowed the crowd in their Park Slope, Brooklyn living room with an energetic solo performance. McGuire, perhaps the only fiddler back in Ireland who really impressed Lad O’Beirne’s circle, made several visits to New York City and we are fortunate that some of his playing from those trips has been preserved among the many reel-to-reel tapes donated to ITMA by the families of Louis Quinn and Charlie Mulvihill.
