Pipe dreams: Meet the Co Antrim uilleann pipe maker breathing life into traditional Irish instrument
“When pipes are going well, it’s heavenly. When they’re not, it can be misery if you don’t know what to do,” says uilleann pipe maker, Aodán MacSéafraidh. Luckily, that’s not a problem for the ...
Uilleann piper Paddy Keenan, one of the most celebrated musicians in Irish traditional music, has died. Keenan was one of the ...
What do John Lennon, "Braveheart," and UNESCO all have in common? Surprisingly, the famed Irish instrument the uilleann pipes. The traditional Irish instrument, the uilleann pipes, has received the ...
Irish bagpipes, or Uilleann pipes (rhymes with chillin'), are a traditional Irish instrument that date back to the 18th century. But, as popular as they are in Ireland, Morning Edition host Andrew ...
There has always been a great tradition of uilleann piping in Kerry and in recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in the traditional instrument. Report shows Dave Hegarty playing the ...
When you spend nearly 40 years in a stressful job like law enforcement, having a way to let off steam can be quite important. For Jack Brennan, that outlet came in the form of the Uilleann pipes, also ...
I once heard an awful joke about the bagpipes: they aren’t a musical instrument; they’re a breathalyser. Blow into them, and if the sound that comes out doesn’t make you want to kill yourself, you ...
INTERNATIONAL UILLEANN Piping Day was marked locally in the Patrick Kavanagh Centre, Inniskeen, on Saturday, October 20, as part of an event organised by Na Píobairi to raise awareness of the ...
When Mark Redmond began learning the uilleann pipes in the Wexford Piper’s Club in 2001, there were only eight to ten pipers in the county. On the club’s closing several years later, the scarcity of ...
It’s been a week since someone broke into Gabriel McKeagney’s San Juan Capistrano house and made off with part of his soul: his two sets of Irish uilleann pipes. And a week since the instruments’ ...
Uilleann piper Paddy Keenan, one of the founding members of The Bothy Band, has died aged 76. Born into a Traveller family ...
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