Mr. John Wiseman, Rooska, Bantry, West Cork, chosen April 1926, to represent Ireland at the International Fiddling Competition at Lewiston, Maine, USA by the Ancient Order of Hibernians of America. The Wiseman family are still in the area.

His grandson Eugene Wiseman was playing music in the Durrus area in the 1940s and 50s

Chief O’Neill, Christy Moore and music in West Cork and a mystery Beamish contribution to the Chief’s Collection.”The Píobaire Bán”, written by Tim O’Riordan- about the piper Peter Hagerty (Hegarty) of Caheragh parish.

Some songs of West Cork, from 1880s ‘The Chapel of Charming Rossmore’, ‘Fifty years Ago (The ESB in Coolea), The Rookery, ‘Garnish’, ‘The Banks of Sullane’, ‘A Toast to Beara’, ‘The Shores of Coolough Bay’, ‘The Strands of Ballylickey and the transmission of music and song along the Butter Roads

Charles Coffee bringing Irish Music to London 1729 and William Cruise Legal Author 1750-1824