Edmund Keating Hyland | |
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Born | 1780 Cahir, County Tipperary, Ireland |
Died | 1845 (age 65) Dublin, Ireland |
Genres | Irish traditional music |
Occupation(s) | Piper |
Instrument(s) | uilleann pipes |
Years active | 1799–1845 |
Edmund Keating Hyland ( Irish: Éamonn Céitinn Ó Haoláin; 1780 – 1845) was an Irish uilleann piper of the early 19th century. [1] [2]
Keating Hyland was born in Cahir around 1780. At 15, he was blinded by smallpox. At 20, he studied music theory under John Andrew Stevenson in Dublin. [3]
He composed the famous jig entitled "The Fox Chase" (based on an earlier eight- bar work, Maidrin Ruadh), [4] and performed it before King George IV in 1821. [5] [6] [7] The king awarded him new pipes worth fifty guineas. [8]
He died in Dublin in 1845, aged 65. [9]
A statue in bronze of Keating Hyland stands in Cahir's main square, sculpted by Mona Croome Carroll and paid for by Lady Margaret Butler-Charteris. [10] [11]