Therese Powell/KERA News 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, ...
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’ ...
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 ...
President Joe Biden sparked a social media debate last week when he claimed that a performance by a bagpiper at the White House made "an Irishman feel special". Biden posted a video of a special St.
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 ...