| Felix Doran | |
| Birth Place: | Ireland |
| Death Date: | 1972 |
| Instrument: | Uilleann pipes |
| Label: | Topic Records |
| Genre: | Irish traditional music, folk music |
Felix Doran (died 1972) was an Irish Traveller who was known for traditional music from the early 1920s to the 1970s as uilleann pipe player.[1] Felix and his brother Johnny Doran are descendants of nineteenth-century Wexford piper John Cash.[2] [3]
Doran was an Irish Traveller uilleann piper who was recorded by Ciaran MacMathuna for RTÉ and by Peter Kennedy and Sean Davies. He was also a horse dealer.[4] Doran and his family were known to entertain at fairs and race meetings in Ireland.[3]
Doran later moved to Manchester and went into the transport business. He did well and became wealthy, and ordered a set of silver uillean pipes from an engineer in Germany.[3]
A recording of some of Doran's music, Felix Doran – The Last Of The Travelling Pipers, was released in 1976 by Topic Records (four years after Doran's death in 1972).[4] [5] [6]