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- c.1940-1959 (Creation)
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13 items; 27 cm x 21 cm; Black and white print; clipping
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Photographic prints of the noted Irish opera singer Margaret Burke Sheridan (1889-1958). The file includes the following images:
• The birth-place of Margaret Burke Sheridan in Castlebar, County Mayo.
• Burke Sheridan with Hilde Gueden (1917-1988), soprano, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
• Burke Sheridan with Delia Murphy Kiernan (1902-1971) and her family.
• Burke Sheridan with Gladys Swarthout (1900-1969), opera singer, at the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera in 1955.
• Burke Sheridan with Burton G. Tremaine, a noted art collector, at the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera in 1952.
• Burke Sheridan with Vincent O’Brien.
The file also includes newspaper clippings ('Irish Press', 'Sunday Review') of tributes paid to Burke Sheridan following her death.
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The file was compiled for a tribute article published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1959). https://designrr.page/?id=315604&token=386663418&type=FP&h=7202