http://claremusic.tripod.com/newhome.htm has a bunch of profiles, of people past and present. The one of Martin Rochford has sound clips of him playing the Old Dudeen on the fiddle, and Rakish Paddy on the pipes. Very muddy recordings unfortunately. Like Willie Clancy he had the Johnny Doran bug bite him pretty fierce.
He may have been bitten by the Johnny bug, he was in fact closer to Felix in many ways. But could he make the fiddle talk.
For what it’s worth, most of Barry Taylor’s recordings of martin [as used on the website] are actually quite good quality, the reproduction on the website sounds like it was done in a dark basement some where. The Otter’s Holt is not Old Dudeen although Junior Crehan may have based his composition on Paddy Killoran’s version of that tune.
Peter, that’s an excellent photo. One of yours?
djm
I linked that one for easy access from Tony McMahon’s website where you may read his article ‘The language of Passion’ starting on this page :
http://www.thepuredrop.info/passion.html
It’s a nice read.
But since you ask, yes it’s one of mine although I would prefer something like this :
Thanks for the link,Peter.
I found the paper to be very thought provoking,and would reccommend to everyone who participates in this board .
Hmmmm…
The Otter’s Holt
Not much of a difference. The strong accents all seem to be in about the same places, etc. Don’t the Bothy Band play the Holt and call it the Dude? Paddy Killoran’s wife was a Clare woman, too.
aka The Tailor’s Thimble, just to add to the confusion. 
djm
Otter’s Holt is a Junior Crehan composition. Killoran was married to Josie Hayes’ sister, Josie was the fluteplayer Junior played with msot of his life. Josie was married to Kitty who I play music with most of the time so I get the stories . Seriously though, Killoran when visiting ireland stayed extensively with Josie and Kitty in Shanaway, playing with the ‘locals’, he recorded the Dudeen [in dublin] on a 78 rpm during his last visit, it’s likely he left the tune behind and not unlikely Junior transformed it into ‘The Otter’s Holt’ (allthough around here it was originally played in a lower key]. Martin Rochford learned it from Junior.
The tailor’s thimble is a completely different tune.