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Thread #62533   Message #1011858
Posted By: GUEST,Me
03-Sep-03 - 04:58 AM
Thread Name: Uilleann Pipes
Subject: RE: Ullean Pipes
Malcolm Douglas is, as usual, right on. Breandan Breathnach took the name 'Union' to come from union of the regulator to the pipes (about 1730?). He noted Grattan-Flood's nonsense about 'Ullean' but couldn't wipe out the 'Ullean' myth at his late date, and was himself head of a big Ullean Pipers group.