What do John Lennon, "Braveheart," and UNESCO all have in common? Surprisingly, the famed Irish instrument the uilleann pipes. The traditional Irish instrument, the uilleann pipes, has received the ...

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 ...

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, Morning Edition host Andrew ...

Fermoy-native Uilleann Pipe master David Hegarty tells Dónal Nolan of the instrument's timeless appeal and its extraordinary heritage in the southwest Dónal Nolan It's a sound buried deep in the Irish ...

It's a sound buried deep in the Irish heart. There cannot be many immune to its effect, as the powerful swell of the drones kick in to push the music into ever-higher realms of the human spirit. But ...