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Map updates

5/31/2015

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  1. Lurganure location corrected on map
  2. Thomas Street Silver Band, Portadown added
  3. Templemore Band added
  4. Killinchy Silver added
  5. Symington Silver Band added
  6. Comber Brass added
  7. Tamlaghtmore Silver Band added


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Search your loft and under your beds!

5/31/2015

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Can you help?

Building on incredible work by Ivor Stephenson in Armagh, there is now a large collection of Judge's Remarks for the NIBA contests from 1913 onwards which will be made available on line before long.  

The collection is missing Judge's Remarks for the following years:
1907?
1908?
1909?


1910?
1911?
1912*
1919

1920
1921
1922
1923
1929

1931
1932

1980
1985
1986
1987
1988

1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
2005
2006
2007
2008

2012
2013
2014



*one record yet to be confirmed, indicates that the Sirocco Works Band won the competition that year.    
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First Post

5/30/2015

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This site went live today after 2 - 3 months of work in the background gathering initial information about brass bands in Ireland.  It all started when Jimmy Kitchen (Junior) handed me some hand-written contest records at the Brass Band League Solos and Ensembles contest on 14 February 2015.  That led to a lot of late-night research on the internet and in newspaper archives and a realisation that not enough is known and documented about brass banding in Ireland, North and South, and that we really need to gather everything together in one location.  

There's a huge amount of work to do, not least in getting a full picture of the extent of banding in Ireland from the 19th Century onwards (though I'm aware of some 'brass bands' being in existence before then), and to understand why they came into existence and what happened to them subsequently.  I've already begun to uncover some fascinating stories about bands and various incidents which will be shared here and elsewhere in the coming months.
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