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75 SPreAD OF ‘UnIOn PIPeS’ The Cork Pipers’ Club, the first Irish pipers’ club, was founded in Cork city in March 1898 when the bellows instrument (as distinct from the recently revived mouth-blown pipes) seemed on the verge of disappearance. 273 For bellows pipes, the Club seems from newspaper reports of its early years to have favoured the term ‘Irish pipes’ but not infrequently used ‘union pipes’. The term had survived the vicissitudes of the second half of the century and was being used naturally by a purposeful group of nationally minded piping revivalists and gaelic league supporters. ‘The piper with whom we are best acquainted’, said Fáinne an Lae, a national gaelic league newspaper, in the very last days of the century, ‘is the player of the Union pipes... the Union piper’. 274 In Irish America, to which many professional bellows pipers and even pipe-makers emigrated after the Famine, the instrument led a comparatively flourishing existence when compared to its condition in the homeland. The terms used for it reflected usage in Ireland: ‘Irish pipes’ was the most favoured term, but ‘union pipes’ was also widely used among professional and amateur players there. Charles Ferguson of limerick, for example, was playing ‘union pipes’ in new york in 1860; 275 as was Thomas Kerrigan of longford there in 1876; 276 ‘six union pipers’ at a concert there in 1890; 277 John Coleman and P.W. Mulqueeney in new Orleans in 1892; 278 and James C. McAuliffe of limerick in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1899. 279 At the end of the 273 Mitchell-Ingoldsby 1998: 6–12. 274 Fáinne an Lae, 9 Dec. 1899. 275 New York Herald, new york, 24 June 1860. 276 New York Herald, new york, 2 Apr. 1876. 277 Irish World and American Industrial Liberator, new york, 20 Dec. 1890. 278 Daily Picayune, new Orleans, 1 Feb. 1892. 279 Wilkes-Barre Times, Pennsylvania, 12 Oct. 1899.
COUrTney’S ‘UnIOn PIPeS’ AnD The TerMInOlOgy OF IrISh BellOWS-BlOWn BAgPIPeS 76 century, in San Francisco in 1899, an Irish piper took possession of a set of the ‘improved union bagpipes’ made by the Taylor Brothers of Drogheda, Co louth, and Philadelphia. 280 Irish bellows pipes sent for exhibition in the Irish section of the World’s Fair in St louis in 1904, and supplied by the Dublin musical-instrument firm Butler & Sons, were identified in the exhibition as ‘Irish Union Pipes’. 281 280 Irish Echo, Boston, January 1899. 281 Irish Industrial Exhibition 1904: 34. I am obliged to Seán Donnelly for a copy of this source.
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