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1808

Belfast Commercial Chronicle - Wednesday 27 April 1808

1829 “you may view them dancing to the village music of the pipe and tabor
every lad with his lass...”

Londonderry Sentinel - Saturday 12 December 1829

1841 1841 Belfast Commercial Chronicle - Monday 08 March 1841

1847 ‘from a London correspondent’ 1847

Coleraine Chronicle - Saturday 12 February 1848

1853 ‘The Fancy Ball’ 1853

Coleraine Chronicle - Saturday 07 May 1853

1869 ‘A Case of Conscience’ 1869

Ulster Gazette - Friday 09 April 1869

1870 New Years ball 1870

Daily Telegraph & Courier (London) - Monday 03 January 1870

1873 definition 1873

Daily Telegraph & Courier (London) - Tuesday 15 July 1873

1873

Western Times - Monday 17 March 1873

1876 story ‘The Covenanter’s Marriage Day’ 1876

Longford Journal - Saturday 09 September 1876

1879 Evenley Gala, Northamptonshire 1879

Bicester Advertiser - Friday 30 May 1879

1881 story 1881 story

Wakefield and West Riding Herald - Saturday 20 August 1881

1882 Description of a painting in the Royal Academy Exhibition: 1882

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 29 April 1882

Pandean pipes

1808 Newspaper review ‘On a Lady Singing’ 1808

Belfast Commercial Chronicle - Wednesday 08 June 1808

1820 advertisement: Archer and McMillan sell musical instruments including pandean pipes.

Belfast Commercial Chronicle - Saturday 28 October 1820

1880 at ‘The Belfast Hospital for Sick Children’ concert: 1880

Northern Whig - Tuesday 28 December 1880

street entertainers

The prosecution of minstrels in Wales was paralleled in Ireland. Ordinances of 1534 decreed that “no Iryshe mynstrels, rymours . .. ne bardes’ should demand rewards within the Englishry upon pain of forfeiture of goods and imprisonment.”

1851 dancing bear 1851

Newry Examiner and Louth Advertiser - Saturday 15 March 1851

" THE gladsome first of May opened to-day, on the sinful world of the great metropolis ...parade the thoroughfares with drums and fifes, some agile member of the fraternity consenting to become a "Jack in the Green"

The Belfast News-Letter, 3 May 1861, page 3.

newspaper commentary

1850 ‘The Parliament’ 1850

Armagh Guardian - Monday 28 January 1850

1856 re Sir Richard Airey and his conduct of war 1856

Belfast Mercury - Monday 19 May 1856

literature

1604 “them as a hare with a tabor, for they have already scattered themselves”,

Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, 1603-1606 .

1843 poem ‘The Starry Home’ 1843

Banner of Ulster - Friday 17 November 1843

1847 story ‘The Court of Hymen’ 1847

Ulster General Advertiser, Herald of Business and General Information - Saturday 16 January 1847

1848 sonnet: 1848

Newry Examiner and Louth Advertiser - Saturday 08 January 1848

1851 Christmas rhymes 1851

Belfast Mercury - Tuesday 16 December 1851

1866 ‘Where and oh where’ 1866

Newry Telegraph - Tuesday 13 November 1866

1875 poem: 1875

Witness (Belfast) - Friday 15 January 1875

1879

Portadown News - Saturday 05 July 1879

1882

Derry Journal - Friday 14 April 1882

1883 poem' Letter to the Editor': 1883

Belfast News-Letter - Thursday 04 October 1883

1884

Ballymena Observer - Saturday 06 December 1884

1899 poem ‘The Gallic Cock’ 1899

Belfast News-Letter - Tuesday 24 October 1899

1929 book review: On the nun Santa Maria the author states:
“The pipe, tabor and cymbals used in the convent in her day are still shown to visitors”

Report of a new Book in Northern Whig - Thursday 10 October 1929

1959

Display of old-time musical instruments in Belfast included a pipe and tabor.
They were on loan from the Victoria and Albert Museum

Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 17 June 1959

1964
It was reported that the Carl Dolmetsch Consort gave a concert of Elizabethan music which included the pipe and tabor, in the Ulster Museum

Belfast Telegraph - Tuesday 19 May 1964

makers and sellers

1877