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The James Fitzgerald Memorial Brass & Reed Band of Mitchelstown, Co. Cork in 1980 on their way to play at a competition in Clonakilty.

Photographs of Kevin McDermott playing the accordion as a young man in London. The first was taken in a pub on Holloway Road in 1962. The second was taken in the Duke of Clarence pub in Finsbury Park in 1964. Pictured (left to right) are Tony Howley…

LISTEN to the interview Kevin McDermott describes his childhood in Cavan town, joining the RAF, and eventual migration to London to join his family in 1956. Along the way he had an active musical life playing different musical styles on the…

Kevin McDermott plays three jigs on his three-row San Marino accordion.

Kevin McDermott plays the air 'Sé Fáth Mo Bhuartha on a ten-hole Lee Oskar harmonica in the key of G.

Kevin McDermott plays the air Táimse im' Chodladh on his ten-hole Lee Oskar accordion in the key of G.

Kevin McDermott plays hornpipes on his three-row accordion.

Vincent Campbell plays a Scottish strathspey on fiddle.

LISTEN to the interview Vincent Campbell plays tunes interspersed with stories about them and recollections of his youth and time in Britain. He was born in An tSeanga Mheáin, in the Gaeltacht near Glenties, Co. Donegal. The music of the region was…

LISTEN to the interview Vince Milne is at the later end of the post-war generation. His parents were from Co. Sligo, but he grew up in west Cork and migrated to London in 1970. There, he worked in a variety of jobs and played in Irish pubs and social…