Obit: Alfred 'Alf' MacLochlainn (1926-2018)

Subject: RE: Obit: Alfred 'Alf' MacLochlainn (1926-2018)
From: Felipa
Date: 19 Sep 23 - 12:11 PM

The Father Dineen who keberoxu mentioned on 31 Dec 2018 is well-known in Irish (Gaelic) language circles for his Irish-English dictionary first published in 1904.
https://celt.ucc.ie/Dinneen1sted.html

keberoxu gave a link to this article: http://www.focloir.com/maclochlainn-on-dinneen.php

Subject: RE: Obit: Alfred 'Alf' MacLochlainn (1926-2018)
From: Felipa
Date: 19 Sep 23 - 12:11 PM

The Father Dineen who keberoxu mentioned on 31 Dec 2018 is well-known in Irish (Gaelic) language circles for his Irish-English dictionary first published in 1904.
https://celt.ucc.ie/Dinneen1sted.html

keberoxu gave a link to this article: http://www.focloir.com/maclochlainn-on-dinneen.php

Subject: RE: Obit: Alfred 'Alf' MacLochlainn (1926-2018)
From: Felipa
Date: 28 Jun 22 - 06:04 PM

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/appreciation-alf-maclochlainn-1.3866052
published Sun Apr 21 2019
There is a paywall on the site.

article begins: "Alf MacLochlainn, who died on December 8th, 2018 in Galway, aged 92, was a former director of the National Library of Ireland and University Librarian at NUI [National University of Ireland] Galway. He wrote fiction and poetry and published widely, in Irish and English, on history, film, music, typography and even paper-making."

Subject: Davy Rogers dedicated tunes to Colm Mac Lochlainn
From: Felipa
Date: 28 Jun 22 - 05:30 PM

http://www.davyrogers.com/davys_tunes.htm
Among the tunes on the list are Colm Mac Lochlainn's hornpipe, Colm Mac Lochlainn's Jig and Colm Mac Lochlainn's reel, "written for
Colm Mac Lochlainn; friend, guitarist and song writer." Both musicians lived in the Tubber area of County Clare.

Subject: Alf MacLochlainn 1926-2018 & Colm MacL' 1951-2022
From: Felipa
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 07:30 PM

a video of Colm Mac Lochlainn singing Alf Mac Lochlainn's "My Son in Amerikay" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feQZFihXbm0

Subject: Obit: Colm MacLochlainn 1951 - 2022
From: Felipa
Date: 25 Jun 22 - 03:33 PM

Alf and Fionnuala Mac Lochlainn's (eldest, I think) son Colm died earlier this month. He'd had a cancer diagnosis in 2017 and had surgeries, but I think he got the all-clear. However, he hadn't been very well this year and then took badly ill at the end of May. Colm worked for Gael Linn and subsequently worked as a translator. He was a frequent singer at sessions and played guitar and mandolin and composed several songs. My condolences to his wife and children and grandchildren, his mother (singer Fionnuala Mac Lochlainn) siblings, other friends and family members.

Subject: RE: Obit: Alfred 'Alf' MacLochlainn 1926 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Dec 18 - 02:44 PM

The song identified by Martin Ryan is in the DigiTrad database here.

Alf MacLochlainn is included in the Oral History Collection about the 1916 Rising at Irish Life and Lore.

As his birth year was 1926, Mr. MacLochlainn saw, not Easter 1916,
but its consequences.

Subject: RE: Obit: Alfred 'Alf' MacLochlainn 1926 - 2018
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 31 Dec 18 - 02:33 PM

Ah - Thank you! I knew of his death but didn’t get round to mentioning it here.

A few years ago, I was at a singing session in Crusheen, south of Galway. I sang “My Son in America”, a humorous song about an errant letter. One of the session organisers asked where I had learned it. I told him my source and added “It was written by a man called Alf Mac Loclainn”. “I know!” Sez he “He’s my father!”. Colm still runs the Crusheen session.

Regards.

Subject: RE: Obit: Alfred 'Alf' MacLochlainn 1926 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Dec 18 - 02:31 PM

Thanks to the Twitter account of MacLochlainn's daughter-in-law,
Rachel Hilliard, a link is available
to one of Mr. MacLochlainn's articles: promoting someone else's work,
that of Fr. Patrick S. Dineen.

"When I was a young man on the staff of the National Library of Ireland..."

Subject: Alf MacLochlainn 1926 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Dec 18 - 02:21 PM

Lyricist/poet Alf MacLochlainn, long employed as librarian,
has passed away, 8 December 2018.

Here is a death notice which gives neither birth-year nor age.
It is in both English and Gaeilge.

Alfred (Alf) MacLochlainn