IRISH KILTS AND PIPES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 758, 5 March 1910, Page 14

IRISH KILTS AND PIPES.

Sir, —Replying to your correspondent, Thomas M. Jitilligan,-.1, : as- an Irishman, .who-' knows V- littlo/6fi-tlfe.-subi<;dt, would .that ithere^-fs^nqtl^at^&i'il^fP'Pe' lnusic to' 'provoke" mere*" amliseiient.' The "Cork

Irish Pipers' Band" has been in existonco for many years, to the delight and satisfaction of thousands of my fellow countrymon. We know very well that Irish pipes differ from tho Scottish, for there are two kinds of Irish pipes, differing from each other. There is tho kind called "piob mor," or war pipes, and tho "Uilleann" (correctly called "Union"), or indoor pipes. To say that tho Irish piper has;to stand to play is nonsense. As to the Irish kilt. We claim tho kilt to bo as old as tho Milesian race. It was in common use down to 200 years ago, tvhen, by an Arbitrary Act, the English Government forbade its use. That is history. In corroboration' of the matter of both these paragraphs, I (inclose a cutting from the "Weekly Irish Times" of February 27, 1908, 011 the subject of Irish pipes and kilts; and a cutting referring to an article in the "London Chronicle" on the Irish national dress.—l am, etc., H. 0. DONNELL. March 2, 1910.