![]() It's just as Irish as it is Jewish in my eyes but some think differently.Īs far as pipe bands & their limited number of tunes I was at a Fife & drum muster & the topic of HP bands came up. Yes, Pipe Bands and kilts belong with St Patrick's Day celebrations and fit well if they wear Irish Uniforms and play Irish Tunes.īrad maloney wrote:For a lot of the same reasons that Americans associate Corned Beef with the Irish. I don't know, but I get the feeling that some are seemingly ashamed of their own culture and adopting a Scottish uniform rather than a uniform which would fit with their own traditions and culture. ![]() Today we have a lot of Irish bands and one band I know of in Belfast, The Irish Republican Fellons Pipe Band which amazes!!! me are wearing Scottish uniforms. ![]() ![]() A lot of bands in Ireland from those days would have also been formed through the Republican movement. All leaders of the Republican movement during 1916 up-rising. Sean O'Casey, Patrick Pearse, Tom Clarke and Plunket Donaghy. Some of its members are stepped in history and would be familar to many of us. Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band out of Dublin is a band of big interest, as it was formed through the Irish Republican moment in the very early years of the last century. Saffron was very comon as shawls in Ireland, hence the saffron kilts. The Irish kilts were of many different shades of colour, different shades of green, red etc, etc. Kilts however are as Irish as they are Scottish, although the tartan belongs to Scotland. Some had 1 drone, some 2 drones and some had 3 or 4 drones. But the pipes in their warpipe (highland) form have been in Ireland throughout the centuries. Pipes bands first came from the British Army, as we see them today as Roger O'Keeffe has said.
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