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Paddy bRENNAN sealed himself in the annals of local culture history, when he published the definitive history of Limerick’s music scene, entitled Limerick Music Throughout the Decades in 2018
This magnum opus comprises nearly 600 pages of information, high quality photographs ( most unavailable elsewhere ) images from the local music circuit, ranging from from the advent of underdog composer George Alexander Osborne in the 1800s, Catherine Hayes’ international opera stardom, the energetic showband era, traditional music, venues, bands, and an extensive look at The Cranberries.
The project, which took three years to compile, resulted in Paddy Brennan receiving the Limerick Person of the Month accolade in November 2018, and a mayoral reception in March 2019.
“I was three years at the book and the longer it went on the bigger it got so I was advised that I have to leave go this project. I was always reluctant because I was worried I was missing somebody. I finally had to leave it go seven or eight months ago before the final printing details could be looked after. It was three years in research,” Paddy told the Limerick Leader in 2018. Hundreds of fellow music fans and locals attended the launch of the new publication at Thomond Park in October 2018, by Paddy’s friend Mick Moloney, the Castletroy native who has become one of America’s most iconic figureheads in Irish traditional music and culture. Paddy Brennan was a corbally native, and was a radio DJ at Radio BL, and always had a penchant for local songwriters and artists.
George Alexander Osborne, Paddy reckons, was possibly Limerick’s first famous international act.
“He moved abroad and studied, and became great friends with Mozart and all the great classical composers at the time, held in high regard in the opera houses of Europe. He was up there with the greats, and no one had heard of him really,” the historian told the Leader.
Speaking of Catherine Hayes, Paddy said: “There is only one, small ten-inch plaque in Limerick commemorating Catherine Hayes. I think she should be immortalised more than what she is. But there’s probably not enough recognition [for her].”
Through his own work as an avid music documentarian, Paddy Brennan has been immortalised as one of Limerick’s key social historians.
