James Goodman

Canon James Goodman (22 September 1828 – 18 January 1896) was a Church of Ireland clergyman, a piper and a collector of Irish music and songs. Life As a cleric Goodman was born in Ballyameen, Dingle, County Kerry and was raised in Ventry, County Kerry, a Gaeltacht area, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, having gained a scholarship in 1847. He was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1851 (his father the Reverend Thomas Chute Goodman had been rector of Dingle). He married Charlotte King in 1852. They had three sons, one of whom later drowned while a student, the other two set up a medical practice in Brigg, Lincolnshire.