Tomás Mac Eoin
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| Birth name | Tomás Mac Eoin |
| Born | 1937 (age 83–84) An Cheathru Rua, Ireland |
| Genres | Sean Nós |
| Occupation(s) | Farmer, writer, composer |
| Associated acts | The Waterboys |
Tomás Mac Eoin (born 1937) is an Irish sean-nós singer, actor, songwriter and poet. He is best known as Tomás 'Jimmy' Mac Eoin from An Bóthar Buí in An Cheathrú Rua, Conamara, Galway, Ireland.
Renowned for his old-style or sean-nós singing, he was voted the best sean-nós singer in Ireland in 1967 at the Oireachtas competitions and won the Ó'Riada Trophy.[1]
Some of Tomás's best known material include
- The Stolen Child ** (Tomás Mac Eoin / Mike Scott)
- An Cailín Álainn
- Bleán na Bó
- Amhrán an Bhingó
- An Rock an' Roll
Regular singer on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, he also performed on The Late Late Show with Gay Byrne several times.
Appeared on the Fisherman's Blues album with the Waterboys
See also[]
- Traditional Irish Singers
- An tOireachtas
References[]
- ^ The Wayfarer December 1988 Archived 7 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine
External links[]
- Poets review
- Waterboys Fisherman Blues review
- Rolling Stone Review
- Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2002 recorded material
- Interview with Máirtín Tom Sheáinín on Ardtráthnóna with RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta
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