wikipedia

[emer]

amazing the things you learn on Wikipedia, for example :

The earliest surviving sets of uilleann pipes date from the second half of the 18th century but it must be said that datings are not definitive. Only recently has scientific attention begun to be paid to the instrument and problems relating to various stages of its development have yet to be resolved. It is gradually becomming accepted that the union pipes originated from the Pastoral pipes and gained popularity in Ireland within the protestant Anglo-Irish community and its gentlemen pipers. Certainly many of the early players in Ireland were protestant, possibly the best known being the mid-18th century piper Jackson from Co Limerick and the 18th century Tandragee pipemaker William Kennedy. The pipes were certainly frequently used by the protestent clergy who employed them as an alternative to the the church organ. As late as the 19th century the instrument was still commonly associated with the Anglo-Irish e.g. the Anglican clergyman Canon James Goodman (1828-1896) from Kerry, who interestingly had his uilleann pipes buried with him at Creagh (Church of Ireland) cemetery near Baltimore, County Cork. His friend, and Trinity College colleague, John Hingston from Skibbereen also played the uilleann pipes.

[Harry]

Oh, that's somebody's idea of 'history' alright... don't swallow it.

Regards,

Harry.

[an seanduine]

Best believe the pipes lived on both sides of the sectarian divide. . .with some amusing goings on entailed. R.L. Mealy ( a seemingly Northern Protestant sounding name) came to be known as O'Mealy, (a suitably Catholic sounding name) at the instigation of Brother Gildas. . .a teaching Brother of the LaSalle order. . .in order to facilitate selling some of Mealy's sets to Dublin pipers.
I wouldn't put too much reliance on a sectarian division. . .the love of the music easily jumped that divide. . .even in Ulster after the partition.

Bob

[rorybbellows]

Canon James Goodman (1828-1896) from Kerry, who interestingly had his uilleann pipes buried with him at Creagh (Church of Ireland) cemetery near Baltimore, County Cork. .

I'd love to stay and talk but I'm off to Creagh cemetery with a shovel .

RORY

[Mr.Gumby]

Creagh cemetery with a shovel

It was exhumed a few days after the burial. It's the Taylor set Eoin O Riabhaigh now has.

[Cathy Wilde]

Wow. Did they have to fumigate it or anything?