Harrington, [?]
?-?bagpipe maker, also a piper (or vv.) (&c.), mentioned by name
Worked in Cork; Son of a small farmer, he couldn’t be kept away from music; By various authorities in that connection, his name is alluded to as an able pipemaker; For the "National Exhibition" (the first Irish industrial exhibition) held in Cork, 1852, he made a set of Irish pipes with silver keys and ferrules, which he sold, at the exhibition, for 50 pounds [today’s rate?; ws]; Also a piper; Discouraged by the direful condition of affairs resulting from the famine, he emigrated to America and all trace of him was lost.
Instrument: Uilleann pipe(s)
O’Neill, Francis: Irish minstrels and musicians: the story of Irish music [Chicago, 1913]. Cork, 1987 [facsimile], p.157, 158-159.