{"id":52747,"date":"2025-12-10T11:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itma.ie\/products\/tommie-potts-the-sorrowful-and-the-great\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T11:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:38:07","slug":"tommie-potts-the-sorrowful-and-the-great","status":"publish","type":"wps_products","link":"https:\/\/staging.itma.ie\/ga\/products\/tommie-potts-the-sorrowful-and-the-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommie Potts: The Sorrowful and the Great"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Sorrowful and the Great<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>is\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the first<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>comprehensive\u00a0<\/span><\/span>biography of Tommie Potts’<\/span> life and unique artistic process.<\/p>\n

W<\/span>ritten by\u00a0<\/span><\/span>ITMA\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Se\u00e1n Potts, Tommie\u2019s grandnephew<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>and son of the late Se\u00e1n Potts, founder member of The Chieftains<\/span>, the book charts the course\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of Tommie\u2019s formative years in the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>fertile musical environment of his family home<\/span>;\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the trauma\u00a0<\/span><\/span>he endured as a young\u00a0<\/span><\/span>f<\/span>ire<\/span>f<\/span>ighter\u00a0<\/span><\/span>surviving the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Pearse Street tragedy of 1<\/span>936;<\/span>\u00a0his powerful relationship with the great traditional musicians of county Clare<\/span>;\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the story of\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>The Liffey Banks<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>LP<\/span>; his friendship with M\u00edche\u00e1l \u00d3 S\u00failleabh\u00e1<\/span>i<\/span>n and an assessment of his\u00a0<\/span><\/span>legacy by\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>contemporary\u00a0<\/span><\/span>artists who encountered his genius during their lifetime.<\/p>\n

Purchase a paperback edition, or a special collector’s limited edition hardback, signed and numbered by the author and including a photograph of Tommie Potts inside the front cover.<\/p>\n

Accompanying this biography is a sister publication \u2013 The Unbroken Music of Heaven – a selection of Tommie\u2019s most exemplary arranged melodies and compositions housed in ITMA\u2019s collections, painstakingly transcribed and beautifully annotated by the great violinist and fiddle player Aoife N\u00ed Bhriain. It is available for purchase on itma.ie\/shop
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