Murphy, Mrs. J.J.
?-?female piper (&c.) mentioned by name
According to O’Neill, "from Limerick"; A member of the "Dublin Pipers’ Club" (founded 1900), she was awarded 2nd prize in the learners’ class of Union pipers at the 1912 "Oireachtas" [Assembly], an Irish dance competition, with its 17 Union pipers (the largest number of the fraternity ever assembled at such a gathering).
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.345*, 346.