Book review: Rare insight into an obscure Irish traditional music icon

This fine biography does that most rare of things: it brings to life, on the printed page, exactly how Tommie Potts felt the music that so defines him. And why

Tommie Potts was never fully understood even among his own peers, many of whom regarded him with suspicion. Picture: Irish Traditional Music Archive

• Tommie Potts: The Sorrowful and the Great 
• Seán Potts (edited by Aoife Nic Cormaic) 
• Irish Traditional Music Archive, €40