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Mon 12 Dec 2008The man who saved a feast of music from the Famine years
Canon James Goodman, minister, piper and collector, left a priceless legacy to traditional music, which will be celebrated thsi week in a TG4 film, writes Siobhán Long
IN SOME QUARTERS there lurks a cliched image of the traditional-music collector as either some penurious spailpín or an incorrigible nationalist hell-bent on imprisoning our music and song in aspic. In reality though, those who've taken the time to collect Irish traditional music have done so in unlikely ways.
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