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John Doherty (musician)

Musical artist

John Doherty (1900 – 26 January 1980) was an Irish folk fiddler.

Biography

John Doherty was born in 1900 in Ardara, County Donegal. He came from a family of Irish Travellers who worked as tinsmiths and horse traders. His birth certificate was uncovered in recent years,^[when?] firstly by Professor Alun Evans, and subsequently by researcher Caomhín Mac Aoidh, allowing confirmation that his date of birth was 1900, rather than 1895, which has been recorded in error in several publications. His father Mickey 'Mor' Doherty was a fiddler as were a number of his brothers and sisters. Mickey Doherty married Mary McConnell, a singer (whose brothers Alec and Mickey were well-known musicians in south Donegal). Together they had nine children and John was the youngest. In an interview in the 1970s, he said that he had to practice in the barn as a teenager, and was not allowed to play fiddle in the company of his parents until he had mastered "Bonny Kate". He heard recordings of James Scott Skinner and imitated his style. His

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John Doherty was born in Kilkenny in 1949. He studied architecture at Bolton Street College of Technology, Dublin (now TU Dublin) from 1968 to 1973 before moving to Sydney and beginning his career as an artist. For many years he divided his time between Ireland and Australia, but he now lives and works in West Cork.

Doherty is well known for his finely detailed studies of the minutiae of life in an Ireland that is slowly fading from view, slipping from the present into past tense. Recent works comprise an almost forensic study of our built environment and vernacular Irish architecture from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His realism is immediately attractive for its apparently benign normality; the abandoned corner shops and bars, the rusting petrol pumps, rotting boats and disused oil drums seem harmless enough, but upon closer inspection they assume a dark humour. His images, coupled with the wry wit of their titles, point towards the human stories that exist behind the facades that represent a meticulous

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Primary Sources

(1) John Doherty, speech in January 1831.

Fellow Workers. The fearful change, which the workings of the last few years have produced in the condition of every class of labourer, summons you to a serious investigation of the cause. Your power as regards the operations of society is omnipotent. You are the great lever by which everything is effected. Let British operatives become firm and united and their unanimous voice of complaint will command respect.

(2) John Doherty, speech in 1832.

Mr. Oastler is a Tory in politics but when we ask, will any of your boasting "liberals" or professing Whigs contribute a tithe of service which Mr. Oastler has rendered to the cause of suffering humanity.

(3) In his autobiography, What I Remember, Thomas Adolphus Trollope described his mother and himself meeting a group of men in Manchester in 1839 who were campaigning against child labour.

Nearly all of them, men a little raised above the position of the factory hands, to the righting of whose wrongs they devoted their lives. They had bee