Hanley, Kitty
?-?female piper (&c.) mentioned by name
According to O’Neill, "a Limerick widow, who on the death of her husband, a blind piper, buckled on his pipes and made a living playing on the streets".
NB¹: ➺ Survey of female pipers; NB²: In "Ethnomusicology Ireland" 2/3 (July 2013), p.1-21, the American author Tes Slominski gives a critical analysis of descriptions, by O’Neill and others, regarding female musicians.
Instrument: Uilleann pipe(s)
O’Neill, Francis: Irish minstrels and musicians: the story of Irish music [Chicago, 1913]. Cork, 1987 [facsimile], p.342.