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Photo Album: Cummings Coalminers

By Brendán Cummings, Contributor
October / November 2004

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1890: Jackson's Patch, Pennsylvania. ℘℘℘ In this picture, Patrick Cummings of Loan in Clogh parish near Castlecomer in County Kilkenny sits with his wife Margaret Crennan, also of Loan, on the front porch of their house in Jackson's Patch surrounded by their sons. Areas of settlement near the mining shafts were called 'patches' and Jackson's was near the Maple Hill Mine, not … [Read more...] about Photo Album: Cummings Coalminers

October 22, 1906

The famous pianist Charles Lynch was born on this day in 1906. Born in Co. Cork to a well off family descended from novelist Maria Edgeworth (Castle Rackrent), Lynch gave his first piano recital at the young age of nine. At fifteen, he won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He became famous through out England and premiered the works of several 20th century composers. His greatest achievement was when he played all of Liszt’s transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies.

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