Egan, Michael
?-1860 [1861?]bagpipe maker, also a piper (or vv.) (&c.), mentioned by name
According to Nicholas Burke originally from Glenamaddy, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Galway; According to John Cummings, however, from Cultymaugh [?], Co. Mayo; The most famous of all Irish pipe makers (maker of the "Harmonic Irish Union Pipes"), he had a business in Liverpool (before 1830), but emigrated to America, where he kept (already in 1844, until his death) a workshop in New York; NB: ➺ Timothy Kenna ("the elder"), and Edward ("Ned") White.
Instrument: Uilleann pipe(s)
O’Neill, Francis: Irish minstrels and musicians: the story of Irish music [Chicago, 1913]. Cork, 1987 [facsimile], p.45, 156, 157, 158, 159 & passim.