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Hawkshaw, John

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1661–c. 1678

Business Type: 
Musical instrument maker: organ
Details: 

John Hawkshaw (Senior) was organist of both Dublin cathedrals from 1660 to c. 1678.

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Built

  • Organ: St Patrick's Cathedral, 1662 [this information originates in Flood ('Organ-Builders'), is repeated by Holmes, but is not substantiated by Grindle]
  • Organ: St Werburgh's Church, 1676 (Flood)

    Installed

  • [Temporary] Organ: Christ Church Cathedral, 1661 (Grindle)
    • Source(s): 

    Flood, W.H. Grattan, 'Irish Organ-Builders from the Eighth to the Close of the Eighteenth Century', The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 5th ser., 40.3 (30 September 1910), 229–34 (p. 232)

    Holmes, John, 'The Trinity College Organ in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries', Hermathena, 93 (1972), 40–48 (p. 41)

    Grindle, W.H., Irish Cathedral Music: a History of Music at the Cathedrals of the Church of Ireland (Belfast: The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, 1989), p. 139