A two-year uilleann pipe-making class in Dublin is helping to preserve one of Ireland's oldest traditional instruments. The uilleann pipe-making class is part of Ballyfermot College of Further ...

Uilleann pipe makers are a rare breed, but the future is looking bright, with talk of a full-time course, writes Siobhán Long Dying breed or burgeoning art? Plaything of the chosen few or object of ...

Bagpipes are an instrument at least a millennia old, the most popular of which, in modern times, is the Great Highland bagpipe. There are other types of bagpipes, some of which have a bellows rather ...

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 ...

Uilleann pipes maker David Lim welcomes musicians Mike McGoldrick and Jim Horan to his workshop, revealing a unique insight into how the instrument is made and played. Show more World-renowned ...

More than 18 months after being stolen, the rare Irish bagpipes and their sweet tones are back in their rightful home in San Juan Capistrano. That’s the happy ending. Here’s the story, and it involves ...

The bagpipe is called the pastoral bagpipe or uillean (McCandless loc. cit.). In the present engraving (showing a right-handed player), the bag and the bellows are not shown, but the bag would be ...

Victor Mullally was a devoted family man and uilleann pipe maker whose sudden death on December 10 at his Glenmore home occasioned great sadness in the area and further afield. Victor was born on July ...