Paddy Cronin [SEP] date of death
Paddy Cronin
Paddy Cronin (6 July 1925 – 15 March 2014) was an Irish fiddler.
Cronin was born in Ré Buí near Gneeveguilla, County Kerry. He was taught fiddle by Padraig O'Keeffe. In 1949, Seamus Ennis recorded him on acetate disc for Radió Éireann. Later that year (1949), after making these recordings, he left Ireland and emigrated to Boston in the United States. During the 1950s, he continued to record, becoming very well known through the seven 78rpm discs he made for the
(died 2005).
- 23 December – Anthony Cronin, poet (died 2016).
- Full date unknown
- Paddy Barry, Cork hurler (died 2000).
- Denis Donoghue, literary critic.
- Ulick O'Connor, writer, historian and critic.
- Seán South, IRA leader (fatally wounded during attack on Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Brookeborough 1957).
Deaths.
- 20 January – John de Robeck, admiral in the British Navy (born 1862).