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Collection name Charles Acton Collection: Box 16 (1962-85)
Unique identifier Acton Gift 16
Description Collection of 31 annotated programmes from the Feis Ceoil Junior and Senior Prizewinners Concerts from 1962-65, 1967-68, 1970-72, 1974, 1977, 1981-85. All concert programmes name the prizewinning performers. Box also contains competition timetables.

Other programmes included in the collection are:
17/5/71: College Singers, conducted by David Milne, with Eric Sweeney (organ) [no mention of the Feis Ceoil]
23/11/77: John Player Theatre: 'Feis Ceoil presents a concert by Colin Staveley and Colman Pearse.'
21/6/85: John McCann Hall, College of Music, Chatham Row, Dublin 2: Feis Ceoil Fund Raising Concert.
Date range 1962 - 1985
Associated People and Organisations Acton, Charles - Feis Ceoil (later Siemens [Nixdorf] Feis Ceoil) - Milne, David - Pearce, Colman - Staveley, Colin - Sweeney, Eric - Trinity College Singers, Dublin -
Associated Places John McCann Hall, College of Music, Chatham Row, Dublin 2 John Player Theatre, Dublin Dublin
Associated Times 20th century - late 1971-1999 20th century - mid 1931-1970
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Collections Overview The National Library of Ireland has two collections consisting mainly of printed sheet music from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. These include much material from the mainsteam western classical music tradition, but also material relating to little known Irish composers. The names of the two collections are the Joly Music Collection and the Additional Music collection. In addition the Library has a small but significant collection of music manuscripts. The general printed collections include some Irish ballad, folk-music and popular song collections.
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