Patrick Flannery (piper) explained

Patrick Flannery (died 1855, New York) was an Irish piper.

Flannery was a native of Aughrim, County Galway, four miles west of Ballinasloe town. Being blind, he was given the uilleann pipes as a means of earning a living.

The lament The Battle of Aughrim (commemorating the Battle of Aughrim which occurred in his home village in July 1691, was his signature tune. He taught it to his pupil, John Coughlan, and his nephew, William Madden of Ballinasloe.

He emigrated to New York City in 1845 with the Coughlan family and his nephew, William, where he died in 1855. According to O'Neill

Flannery died while playing The Bucks of Oranmore before an audience on the streets of Brooklyn in 1855. He had no family, and was survived by his nephew.

O'Neill said of his pipes:

References

• Famous performers on the Irish or Union pipes in the eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth centuries, chapter XIX, Irish Minstrels and Musicians, Capt. Francis O'Neill, Chicago, Regan Printing House, 1913.
• Famous Pipers who flourished principally in the second half of the nineteenth century Chapter 21 in Irish Minstrels and Musicians, by Capt. Francis O'Neill, 1913.

External links

• http://billhaneman.ie/IMM/IMM-XIX.html