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Glountane with his mother. O'Keeffe did not care for the teaching work and he was often missing when he should have been calling role. After numerous poor showings, O'Keeffe was replaced officially on 30 June 1920, largely to the regret of his mother. Upon his mother's death in 1938, Pádraig O'Keeffe is said to have played his fiddle the entire night through.
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John O'Keeffe had been known as a hard schoolmaster (even inciting a boycott against him in 1890), but Pádraig O'Keeffe did not carry on this legacy and was thought to have been as kind as his father was strict, and was thought to have been very progressive in his lessons, even holding some lessons
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Scottish immigrants who left major influences on him, among them tunes and technique. Upon returning some 20 years later, O'Callaghan is said to have played constantly and is
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to train as a national school teacher upon his father's request where he learned some music theory. After qualifying he returned to Kerry, where he taught brief stints at a number of local schools and substituted at
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and later by Séamus Mac Mathúna. These recordings were broadcast on Radio Éireann (RTÉ), and later re-used by the BBC in 1952, bringing him wide fame. The 1940s recordings were later issued on a CD "Pádraig O'Keeffe: The Sliabh
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