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Edwina Guckian: The story of Jack Lattin

Series 1, Episode 3

In St. David's Churchyard, Naas, Co. Kildare, on a well-preserved tombstone you’ll find:
Morristown Lattin, Co. Kildare
Castle Browne, Co. Kildare (now Clongowes Wood College)
Transcript of Jack Latin [sic], from John Neal's third collection of country dances - exact title unknown (Dublin, 1734) p. 15 From: 'Ecstasy in eighteenth-century Kildare?: the strange fate of John Lattin of Morristown Lattin (1731) Courtesy of Seán Donnelly

Jack Lattin / Cathal Ó Curráin, fiddle

Jacky Lattin, air ; Máire Bheag Ní Ghibhearlan, air / Jimmy O'Brien Moran, uilleann pipes

Jack Latin [sic] from the Grier Manuscripts Online at ITMA. Book 2: IE ITMA 255804
Following in Jack Lattin's dance steps Taylor and Skinner’s Road Map of Ireland (1777)
Driving in Jack Lattin's dance steps
Edwina Guckian, Morristown, November 2020

Researcher Seán Donnelly, author of 'Ecstasy in eighteenth-century Kildare?: the strange fate of John Lattin of Morristown Lattin (1731)'. Image: courtesy Mick O'Connor