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Evening Echo, Cork, Ireland

Folksong and folklore collector Munnelly dies

30/08/2007 - 2:21:06 PM

Ireland's greatest folksong and folklore collector Tom Munnelly died today after a long illness.

Born in Dublin in 1944, Mr Munnelly moved permanently to Miltown Malbay, Co Clare in 1978 to devote more time to working in the field of collecting folksongs.

He was responsible for recording the most comprehensive collection of traditional folksongs ever compiled in the country.

Mary Cloake, council director, said he would be greatly missed.

"Tom Munnelly began recording and collecting traditional songs as far back as 1964," she said.

"He was a social historian and he belonged to a long line of distinguished field collectors that includes Seamus Ennis and Micheal O'Domhnaill. He will be greatly missed and we offer our condolences to his family."

He had served for three years as a member of the Arts Council from February 1986 to December 1988.