Ireland history
Northern Ireland
for dancing |
1808 Belfast Commercial Chronicle - Wednesday 27 April 1808 |
1829 “you may view them dancing to the village music of the pipe and tabor every lad with his lass...” Londonderry Sentinel - Saturday 12 December 1829 |
1841 |
1844 ‘Christmas. Its Piety – Its Gambols’ |
1847 story ‘The Court of Hymen’ |
1869 ‘A Case of Conscience’ Ulster Gazette - Friday 09 April 1869 |
1870 New Years ball  Daily Telegraph & Courier (London) - Monday 03 January 1870 |
1876 story ‘The Covenanter’s Marriage Day’ Longford Journal - Saturday 09 September 1876 |
1879 Evenley Gala, Northamptonshire  Bicester Advertiser - Friday 30 May 1879 |
1881 story  Wakefield and West Riding Herald - Saturday 20 August 1881 |
1882 Description of a painting in the Royal Academy Exhibition: Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 29 April 1882 |
Pandean pipes |
1820 advertisement: Archer and McMillan sell musical instruments including pandean pipes. Belfast Commercial Chronicle - Saturday 28 October 1820 |
1880 at ‘The Belfast Hospital for Sick Children’ concert:  Northern Whig - Tuesday 28 December 1880 |
street entertainers |
The prosecution of minstrels in Wales was paralleled in Ireland. Ordinances of 1534 decreed that “no Iryshe mynstrels, rymours . .. ne bardes’ should demand rewards within the Englishry upon pain of forfeiture of goods and imprisonment.” |
The Belfast News-Letter, 3 May 1861, page 3. |
newspaper commentary |
| 1848 Jewish people were now allowed to stand for Parlimant in London:
from a London Correspndent  Coleraine Chronicle 12 February 1848 |
1850 ‘The Parliament’ Armagh Guardian - Monday 28 January 1850 |
1856 re Sir Richard Airey and his conduct of war Belfast Mercury - Monday 19 May 1856 |
literature |
| 1604
“them as a hare with a tabor, for they have already scattered themselves”,
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, 1603-1606 . |
1847 story ‘The Court of Hymen’  Ulster General Advertiser, Herald of Business and General Information - Saturday 16 January 1847 |
1851 Christmas rhymes Belfast Mercury - Tuesday 16 December 1851 |
1866 ‘Where and oh where’ Newry Telegraph - Tuesday 13 November 1866 |
1875 poem:  Witness (Belfast) - Friday 15 January 1875 |
1879  Portadown News - Saturday 05 July 1879 |
1882  Derry Journal - Friday 14 April 1882 |
1884  Ballymena Observer - Saturday 06 December 1884 |
1899 poem ‘The Gallic Cock’ Belfast News-Letter - Tuesday 24 October 1899 |
| 1929 book review:
On the nun Santa Maria the author states: “The pipe, tabor and cymbals used in the convent in her day are still shown to visitors” Report of a new Book in Northern Whig - Thursday 10 October 1929 |
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Display of old-time musical instruments in Belfast included a pipe and tabor. Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 17 June 1959 |
1964 Belfast Telegraph - Tuesday 19 May 1964 |
makers and sellers |
1774 newspaper advertisement (detail) |
1877 People's Advocate and Monaghan, Fermanagh, and Tyrone News - Saturday 08 September 1877 |
1897 newspaper advertisement:  Derry Journal - Friday 05 March 1897 |
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