before 1771
Apprentice: Thomas Perry [?] (Rice).
[Note: according to Flood, Faulkner's Dublin Journal of 9–11 July 1771 contains the notice: 'Died Mr Pierrie, on [of?] Temple Bar, fiddle maker'. Rice notes that 'the notice from 1771 has been misread by Grattan Flood, and [...] the error has been reproduced by some who have followed him. The correct text among the death notices [...] is 'On Temple Bar, Mr Peetrie, Fiddle Maker'.]
Flood, W.H. Grattan, 'A Famous Dublin Fiddle Maker', Irish Independent, 24 April 1920, p. 4
Teahan, John, 'A List of Irish Instrument Makers', The Galpin Society Journal, 16 (May 1963), 28–32 (p. 31)
Rice, John Kenneth, 'The Life and Work of Thomas Perry' (unpublished doctoral thesis, St Patrick's College Maynooth, 1993), pp. 18, 23–24
Boydell, Brian, ‘Peerie’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>
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