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1933 The band's first group picture. |
1939 Cover of the Decca Album "Irish War Pipes" recorded by the Tyrone
Pipers' Band. |
1935 Tom McSwiggan and pipers playing for Irish Dancers (New York Evening
Journal, September 17, 1935). |
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1960 Tom McSwiggan leading the band in dress rehearsal. |
1960 Group photo. |
March 12, 1961 NY Daily News
Magazine Article |
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1976 Group photo (l to r,
Maurice Whelan, Jim Lundt, Connolly, Tim Smith, Gerry Touhy, Robert Lynch, Tim
Ermish, Patrick McEntee, Bob Costigan, Mike McGuigan, Mike Evans, Alex
Hamilton, Tom Moylan, Jerry O'Sullivan, Tom Downes .) |
1976 Group photo |
1976 Maurice Whelan, Robert Lynch, Jerry
O'Sullivan and Tom Moylan on parade. |
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| 1980 Group photo (Back row- l
to r, Tom Downes, John McManus, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Philip O'Brien, Michael
McGuigan, Robert Lynch, Alex Hamilton, John Fitzgerald, Dan McCarthy, Joseph
Lowry, Jim Lundt. Bottom row: James Nilan, Don Dukes, Patrick
McEntee, Chip Ermish, Veronica McCarthy, Patrick Downes.) |
1981 The Tyrone Pipe Band was
prominently involved in a number of demonstrations that took place in New York
City in support of the "H-Block" Hunger Strikes by political prisoners in
Northern Ireland. Shown in the pictures at left are bass drummer Patrick
McEntee and pipers Robert Lynch and John Fitzgerald. In the following
year's St. Patrick's Day Parade, we wore H-Block armbands to memorialize the
hunger strikers. |
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1981 Robert Lynch, John McManus and
Jim Lundt perform at the Pipers' Ceili. |
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1981 Robert Lynch leading the New
York funeral processions for H-Block Hunger Striker Kieran Doherty, left, and
Martin Hurson, right. |
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1982 Steve and Joe Lowry and families swing at the annual
band picnic. |
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1983 50th Anniversary Group Photo |
1983 Pipe Major Jim Lundt and tenor drummer Sighle Lynch
make a presentation to founding Pipe Major Tom McSwiggan at the band's 50th
Anniversary celebration. Alex Hamilton introducing retired band members on
that occasion (right) |
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| 1983 "Pipes Down" In the 1983 St. Patrick's Day
Parade the band marched silently past St. Patrick's Cathedral to protest the
snubbing of that year's Grand Marshal, veteran Irish Republican Michael Flannery. |
1983 Competition Unit at Garden States Art Center (left)
and at the UIC Feis, Dunwoodie, Yonkers, (left), led by Pipe Major James Lundt. |
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1985 Competition Unit at Nassau County Feis, led by Pipe
Major John Francis McManus. |
1986 Competition Unit Hunter Mountain Celtic Festival. |
1986 Group photo taken at the Pipers' Ceili. |
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1986 Andy Hamilton, Robert Lynch, Síghle Lynch, Patrick Lynch and
Kathy Lynch on St. Patrick's Day, 1986. (The Immigrant's Voice, May, 1986) |
1986 Group photo at Canada's Irish Festival, New Brunswick. |
c. 1990 The Tyrone Pipe Band at Middle Island, Miramichi, New Brunswick
posing before the monument erected there in memory of refugees from the Great
Hunger. |
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| 1989 Piper Jim Shea performing at Gaelic Park, Bronx, NY (Riverdale
Press, May 18, 1989). |
1989 Free Joe Doherty rally (Irish Echo June 24,
1989). |
1996 A little help from a guest piper. (Newsday, March,
1996) |