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Pat Touhey photographs and images
Every image I can find

Touhey and John Egan both played uilleann pipes while riding in a jaunting car in the promotional parades for this touring company.

Harrigan's Hibernian Tourist Songster New York Popular Publishing Co. 1885? 32 pages, 17 cm (about 6 1/2" tall).
Drawing of jaunting car on cover. Image from the New York Public Library Performing Arts Library
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I am convinced this is not Pat Touhey, but his cousin James. For my reasoning see here.

Chicago, IL World's Fair May 1-Oct. 30, 1893
From The Columbian Gallery - A Portfolio of Photographs from the World's Fair... The Werner Company, Chicago 1894. Most pages are unnumbered, but there is a numbered ten-page section entitled "Within the Midway Plaisance." The drawing is on page 1
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Act I.-The Dance.

Pat Touhey, 32 years old, seated atop a chair in "The Dance" scene in "Shamus O'Brien," a comic opera by Charles Villiers Stanford, composed 1896, produced in NYC in 1897. From an unidentified publication, glued into a scrapbook at the New York Public Library:

"Light Operas vol. XVI 302"
A scrapbook of printed photographs at NYPL for the Performing Arts. Call number:
portrait MWEZ+ n.c. 302
Shamus O'Brien photos pp. 99-103?
"Act. 1-The Dance" including piper, p. 102

Photograph originally published in Harper's Weekly, 30 January 1897 p. 104, Vol. 41 No. 2093
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The cast of Rice and Barton's "Big Gaiety" Company. Touhey was active in this company, along with piper Charles Mack, Feb. 1898 - April 1900. This photgraph was published Sept. 1899. Were Touhey and Mack in the photo? Historian Elizabeth Morningstar believes, I think correctly, that the large man on the right is Charles Barton and that George W. Rice is seated in front of him. She wonders if Mack is seated on the left, and Touhey seated amongst the women to the right, with bald head and paintbrush beard.

Louisville Kentucky Irish American Sep. 16, 1899 p. 4 column 4
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Touhey teamed up with dancer Pat Lacy on and off from June 1900 to August 1903. Their act is described as "funny entrance in an automobile, wind up with a dance." At one point the auto falls apart to comic effect. In the second photo the consensus is that Touhey is on the left. In any case the man on the right is holding a bricklayer's hod. Brought to my attention by Emmett Gill of Na Píobairí Uilleann

New York Clipper vol. 48 no. 16 June 16, 1900 p. 368
Images from the Library of Congress.
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Patrick Touhey.
New York.

Photo associated with the article "Irish Pipes and Pipers" by Thomas Ennis, in An Gaodhal. (The Gael.) : a monthly bi-lingual magazine devoted to the promotion of the language, literature, music and art of Ireland. published by M. J Logan, New York. vol. XXI, no. 2 Feb. 1902, pp. 33-38
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Touhey and probably Edward Harrison playing for unidentifed dancer on left, and the Kelly Trio, Jeremiah, Sydney and Susan Kelly. St. Louis, MO.

From Inside the World's Fair of 1904: exploring the Louisiana Purchase Exposition by Elana V. Fox, 1stBooks Library 2003 vol. 2 p. 53. Photo published also in the Los Angeles Herald, Oct. 2, 1904 Sunday Supplement p. 10 column 5
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Chas. H. Burke - Pat. Touhey & Co. - Grand -
Left to right: Pat Touhey, May Touhey, Henrietta Carter Burke, Charles H. Burke.

Syracuse, NY "Grand-Keith's Vaudeville" [Theatre] May 11-16, 1908
Syracuse Herald May 10, 1908 p. 15 column 1
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Patrick J. Touhey.
Irish Piper and Comedian.

Francis O'Neill Irish Folk Music 1910 p. 114.
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Chas. Burke-Pat Toughey Co.

Cedar Rapids, IA Majestic Theatre Dec. 4-9, 1911
This week at the Majestic
"Chas. Burke - Pat Toughey Co." [cartoon]
Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette Dec. 5, 1911 p. 7 column 2
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Patrick J. Touhey

Francis O'Neill Irish Minstrels and Musicians 1913 p. 314.
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Charles Burke, Pat Touhey.

Scranton, PA Poli's Theatre March 20-22, 1919
Scranton Republican March 20, 1919 p. 10 column 4
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P. J. Touhey, Irish-Piper
"The Only Patsy"

"The page above is reproduced from a Victor Records catalogue for February 1920 [page 12], kindly donated recently by Jim McGuire."
An Píobaire vol. 5 no. 1 Feb. 2009 p. 15
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Pat and Mary Touhey. Undated. From Tom Busby Collection of photographs, Na Píobairí Uilleann, Dublin, Ireland.
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Pat Touhey reads a letter. Undated. From Tom Busby Collection of photographs, Na Píobairí Uilleann, Dublin, Ireland.
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Mary and Pat dancing. Undated. From Tom Busby Collection of photographs, Na Píobairí Uilleann, Dublin, Ireland.
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Mary and Pat Touhey. Undated. From Tom Busby Collection of photographs, Na Píobairí Uilleann, Dublin, Ireland.
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Pat and Mary Touhey in a motorcar with unidentified girl. Likely a Willys Overland made between 1916-18.
Undated. From Tom Busby Collection of photographs, Na Píobairíi Uilleann, Dublin, Ireland.
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Pat[?] and Mary Touhey on a bench. Undated. From Tom Busby Collection of photographs, Na Píobairí Uilleann, Dublin, Ireland.
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Nick Whitmer, Ithaca, NY, USA
additions, revisions May 2025

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