Three masters of Irish music have recorded a DVD to explain the mysterious art of uilleann piping. Liam O'Flynn (pictured right), Ronan Browne and Tommy Keane -- three of the greatest living exponents ...

One of a number of recordings of Irish traditional music, made in Athlone. An unnamed musician performs a tune on the uilleann pipes. Possibly recorded for ‘Midland Music’, a feature in which Sean ...

The vibrant skirl of pipe music echoed throughout the Vacaville Town Square Library on a stormy Thursday. Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, Irish uilleann pipe musician, David Winter of Berkeley ...

Tributes have poured in for one of Ireland’s most influential traditional musicians and master of the uilleann pipes, Paddy Keenan. Born into a renowned musical family, Keenan carried forward a rich ...

Spitfire Audio has released LABS Uilleann Pipes. They say that it is made in collaboration with award-winning composer, producer and performing artist, Hannah Peel, and as featured in Hannah's score ...

Uilleann. It’s pronounced like the woman’s name “Ellen,” Eamonn Dillon would say between sets when someone from the bar would come up to look at one of his low-budget, home-produced CDs. The uilleann ...

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 ...

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 ...

A coffin with a glass lid, an IRA safe house and a woman with a drink problem who left her six children - these are just some of the unlikely ingredients of Louise Mulcahy's highly entertaining ...

Derrick Gleeson vividly remembers the beginning of his obsession with uilleann pipes. He was nine years old and in the kitchen of his parents’ pub, four miles from Miltown Malbay in Co Clare and well ...

The old expression about mighty oaks growing from small acorns is a very useful one when referring to a new music book about to be published this month by Jawbone Press. It is an illuminating new ...