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Touhey and John Egan and 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 of James Touhey 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 of some sort, glued into a scrapbook:

"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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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. Published also in the Los Angeles Herald, Oct. 2, 1904.
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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 Piobiare vol. 5 no. 1 Feb. 2009 p. 15
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Pat and Mary Touhey. Undated. From Tom Busby Collection of photographs, Na Piobairi Uilleann, Dublin, Ireland.
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Pat Touhey reads a letter. Undated. From Tom Busby Collection of photographs, Na Piobairi Uilleann, Dublin, Ireland.
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Mary and Pat dancing. Undated. From Tom Busby Collection of photographs, Na Piobairi Uilleann, Dublin, Ireland.
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Mary and Pat Touhey. Undated. From Tom Busby Collection of photographs, Na Piobairi 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 Piobairi Uilleann, Dublin, Ireland.
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Pat[?] and Mary Touhey on a bench. Undated. From Tom Busby Collection of photographs, Na Piobairi Uilleann, Dublin, Ireland.
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