School: Clochar
- Location:
- Clogher, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ó Gealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095, Page 131
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- (continued from previous page)and fiddled at the same time. His fee was 4d per week per student with board and lodgings thrown in. In tose days it took a class six months to make any progress - the time (of the music) being the chief stumbling block, and some men never succeeded in becoming even middling dancers. At the present time a child of 6 or 7 years can learn to dance a reel in perfect time in three or four evenings; and similarly for the jigs - slip and double, the Hornpipe being slightly more difficult.
But the greatest master of step-dancing that used to visit and teach here was Mr Tuohy of Kiltimagh. His fame was widespread. Any man or woman taught by Mr Tuouhy had the "right steps". Killeen's steps were in no such estimatim; and the progress of his 'scholars' was slower. At the present day Killeen's steps can(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Micheál Ó Gealbháin
- Gender
- Male
