Tomás McKeown

Tomás McKeown

Infobox musical artist
Name = Tomás Mac Eoin


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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Tomás Mac Eoin
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Born = 1926
An Cheathru Rua, Ireland
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Genre = Sean nós
Occupation = Farmer, Writer, Composer
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Associated_acts = The Waterboys
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Awards = Best sean-nós singer in Ireland in 1967 at the Oireachtas competitions and won the Ó’Riada Trophy

Tomás Mac Eoin (192?- ) is an Irish Sean nós singer, an affectionate actor, singer, songwriter and poet. He is best known as Tomás 'Jimmy' Mac Eoin from An Bóthar Buí in An Cheathrú Rua, Conamara, Galway, Ireland.

Gaelic is the spoken language, although Tomás, like most others in the area, is proficient in English also. As with many people in the West, his life seems to revolve around music. Although probably too modest to ever admit it, he seems to have an unending capacity for song-making. It has been said of him - “the man has forgotten more songs than most people would be able to learn in a lifetime of serious collecting”. 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. [ [http://www.mikescottwaterboys.com/mikescottwaterboys/archive/Press/presstxt2.htm The Wayfarer December 1988 ] ]

Some of Tomás's best known material include

* The Stolen Child ** (Tomás Mac Eoin / Mike Scott (musician))
* An Cailín Álainn
* Bleán na Bó
* Amhrán an Bhingó
* An Rock an’ Roll

Regular singer on Radio 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

ee also

*Traditional Irish Singers
* [http://www.antoireachtas.ie/staging_007/index.php An tOireachtas]

References

External links

* [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5815 Poets review]
* [http://www.last.fm/music/The%20Waterboys%20Featuring%20Tomas%20McKeown Waterboys Fisherman Blues review]
* [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/132545/review/5940950/fishermansblues Rolling Stone Review]
* [http://www.cic.ie/product.asp?idproduct=290&variables= Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2002 recorded material]
* [http://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_ardtrathnona.xml Interview with Máirtín Tom Sheáinín on Ardtráthnóna with Radio na Gaeltachta]


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