135 likes. To many of us, he may have been just ‘Tom Healy from Leitrim’ or ‘Tom Healy the musician’, but to the many people who travelled from all over the country and from London to pay their respects and show their appreciation, he was someone who had a special place in their hearts as a gentle and kind person, a true friend and a great entertainer. Liam founded The Avondhu in November 1978, and, from a humble 8-page newsletter, developed it to the 80 page tabloid and the leading local weekly newspaper that it is today.
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Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a Page. Concluding, she said she had ‘lost her best friend’ and asked God to take Tom home and to give him the peace and rest he deserved.As proceedings in St Patrick’s Church concluded, a recording of Tom singing ’To My Children I’m Irish’ brought a tear to many an eye.
Great times, great people, great memories!The hundreds of people including the ‘who’s who’ of the social dancing scene who turned up to pay their respects at his funeral, bore testimony to his immense popularity.To his family, Tom was a wonderful husband and father and will be greatly missed by his wife Eileen, daughters Sinead and Ciara, Sinéad’s partner Shane, his brother Pat and wife Teresa, nephew Patrick his wife Karen and their children Devin and Rían, extended family, neighbours, friends and his many colleagues in the music business. The coffin, while being taken from the church to the playing of ‘The Dark Island’ by Seamus Shannon, was greeted outside by a guard of honour formed by his numerous fellow accordion players.Having formed The Antelopes in the late 1970s, Tom travelled much of the country and held the distinction of attracting the biggest crowd to the once famous Kilworth festival which ran over the late 1970s and early ‘80s.Well known local musician Mo O’Connor recalled being present that same night in August 1979 and, following the dance, Tommy asked him to join the band for a tour of England, which he immediately did. Needless to say, the ‘few minutes’ turned out to be several hours, during which some great tunes were played and songs were sung – the music emanating all over the adjoining countryside. He has worked across a variety of genres on acclaimed and award winning albums and performed alongside a multitude of artists. Artist. Tom Healy (born 1961) is an American writer and poet, curator and public servant.
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From 2011-2014, Healy was the chairman of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, which oversees the Fulbright scholars program worldwide. That same hospitality she said, was shared out in Lemington Spa where Tom was based and was equally forthcoming from Eileen and her parents.Referring again to his kind and gentle disposition, she said Tom ‘never had a negative word to say about anyone’. His death on Sunday, January 19 while not unexpected, was received with great sadness by all who had the pleasure of knowing him.It was no great surprise that Tom Healy as a young man, would eventually take to the music business having come from a house that was steeped in music.Tom’s dad played the accordion and his mam had a beautiful singing voice, so Tom and his brother Pat had a good education in that regard.The Mass in St Patrick’s Church, Fermoy on Thursday, January 23 celebrated by Canon Donal Leahy, PP Kilworth, began with Brendan Shine, a great friend and mentor of Tom’s, singing the Entrance Hymn (‘The Old Rugged Cross’).Tom’s own accordion was brought to the altar by his only nephew Patrick Healy, along with other mementos of life including an LP of his first recording, a miniature accordion, his camera, a family portrait and The Irish Post newspaper through which he regularly kept in touch with the music scene in England, of which he had been such a big part for many years.The readings were read by Peter Bonehill and Mary Beirne, the Responsorial Psalm (‘On Eagle’s Wings’) was sung by Art Supple as was the Offertory Hymn (‘I Watch The Sunrise’) while Mary O’Brien and Liz McCarthy took part in the Offertory Procession.The Communion Hymns were sung by Trudy Lalor (‘Here I Am Lord’ and ‘How Great Thou Art’) and Tom’s daughter Sinead who gave a very moving but beautiful rendition of ‘When The Rain Comes’.Tom’s wife Eileen recited a poem that included the words “God saw you getting tired / And a cure was not to be / So he put His arms around you / And whispered ‘Come to me’.”In her eulogy, another associate of Tom’s, Mary Darcy (originally of Two’s Company), paid a moving and fitting tribute to Tom and spoke of their 50 years of friendship that she will forever treasure.
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He is currently the director of the Curator Culture series at The Bass Museum in Miami Beach, where he also serves as a trustee.
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