Pecker Dunne

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Pecker Dunne

Irish Traveller, musician, and seanchaí

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Irish Travellers
Language, culture, and society
…include singers Margaret Barry and Pecker Dunne and uilleann pipers Felix Doran, Finbar Furey, and Paddy Keenan. The playwright J.M. Synge’s two-act comedy The Tinker’s Wedding (1907) was based on a story he collected from rural Irish in County Wicklow. Irish Traveller characters have appeared in films such as Into…
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…include singers Margaret Barry and Pecker Dunne and uilleann pipers Felix Doran, Finbar Furey, and Paddy Keenan. The playwright J.M. Synge’s two-act comedy The Tinker’s Wedding (1907) was based on a story he collected from rural Irish in County Wicklow. Irish Traveller characters have appeared in films such as Into…
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