| Familiar with the name "Francis O'Neill"?
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| | written transcribed in written form.
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| The current wave of interest in Celtic
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| | O'Neill did not read music -- he played
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| music owes him a great debt -- he's the
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| | by ear -- but he became convinced of the
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| person who collected and published the
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| | value of saving Celtic tunes for
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| music for thousands of Celtic tunes,
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| | prosperity by transcribing them into
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| making them available to musicians all
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| | musical notation for future generations.
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| over the world.
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| | With the help of a fiddling seargeant in
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| O'Neill was born in 1848 in Ireland.
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| | the Chicago police department who did
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| When he was 16, he emigrated to the
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| | read music, he managed to do so. He
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| United States. During his life, he was a
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| | would play the tunes he had learned from
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| rancher, a teacher, a Chicago policeman,
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| | other musicians; the sergeant would
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| and fathered ten children. He also
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| | transcribe them into musical notation.
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| played the flute!
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| | By the time O'Neill died in 1936, he had
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| O'Neill (also known as "Chief O'Neill")
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| | collected and transcribed nearly 3,500
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| loved Celtic music. At that time, the
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| | tunes -- many of them dating back
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| music was passed down tune at a time from
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| | hundreds and hundreds of years!
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| one musician to another. Little had been
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