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The inclusion of a fiddle competition as part of the Feis Ceoil was discussed as far back as 1895. At a meeting of the Feis General Committee, a letter from Charles Villiers Stanford was read out, suggesting that ‘a special meeting of the Feis, or two meetings, should be devoted to Irish folk songs, both by getting all the harpers that are left and the best of the country fiddlers, and also by performing specimens of them. This I take to be the main work of an important kind of the meeting.’ Despite this, the first fiddle competition was not held until the second year of the Feis Ceoil, 1898.