Bagpipe Legends, Fairy Tales, and Folklore: Irish War Pipes

Complete Contents of "The Piper Came to Our Town"

The bagpipes have a long and noble history stretching back centuries. In various forms and by different names, they have been played across Europe and the Middle East, and in such diverse places as India and the Americas. The Piper Came to Our Town is a collection of over seventy stories, tales, anecdotes, and legends of pipers, running the gamut from the ordinary to the supernatural. You will travel from the battlefields of Africa to faerie caves below the earth, and meet pipers urging troops to victory, fighting off man-eating cows, and even creating new worlds. The Piper Came to Our Town will delight fans of bagpipe music, lore, and tradition, as well as anyone who likes a good folk story.

The complete contents of "The Piper Came to Our Town" are found below. A few of these poems or legends can be read on this site; click on the active links. Information regarding the original sources to all the tales can be found in the book's notes.

The Piper and the Pooka of November.
Piper, Play
Mannix the Coiner
The Piper of Weinsberg
Irish Pipers in Literature (Conflicting Interests, Thady Connor and How He Got His Pipes; Daniel O'Leary, The Duhallow Piper; Rory Oge, The Killaloe Piper; Remmy Carroll, The Fermoy Piper; The Silent Piper; The Satanic Piper)
The Irish Bagpiper
The Piper of Mucklebrowst
The Highland Piper
Ould Murphy the Piper
Black Chanter of Chattan
Pibroch o’ Donuil Dhu
When Bagpipes Held No Charm
Purcel the Piper
The Piper
The Wonderful Tune
The Pipes o’ Gordon’s Men
The Young Piper
The Fairy Teachers
Terry O’Roon and His Wonderful Tune
Diarmid Bawn, The Piper
Hell’s Piper
The Ratcatcher
Tom Tit Tot
The Last Piper
The Fisher
The Changeling and His Bagpipes
Barrett the Piper
Mr. Vinegar
The Dragon and the Prince
Great Hand and the Piper
The Russet Dog
The Cow That Ate the Piper
The Cow That Ate the Piper (Poem)
The Pipers
The Cattle Jobber of Awnascawil
The Host of the Air
The Fairy Pipes
Hans the Hedgehog
The Caraiman
Caoch the Piper
The Hundred Pipers
Piper M’Nee
The Piper o’ Dundee
Music for the Road
Bagpipes and the Clergy
The Pibroch’s Notes
Thoughts o’ Langsyne
Maggie Lauder
The Fairy Piper
The Kintalen Changeling
The Pipes at Lucknow
The Relief of Lucknow
The Piper and the Changeable Fairy
To the Lion Rampant
The Pipes: Onset
The Hereditary Pipers
Bagpipes versus Fiddle
Turlough MacSweeney
Turlough and the Fairy King
The Pipers o’ Buchan
The Wounded Piper of Elandslaagte
Prisoner of War
The Kirk of Killiechrist
Hannaberry the Piper
Music, Dancing and Drunkenness

Editor's Note: 13 of the 70+ tales appeared in an earlier collection, Whistling Jigs to the Moon: Tales of Irish and Scottish Pipers, published in 1993 and now out of print. These are: "The Piper and the Pooka," "Hell's Piper" by Riccardo Stevens, "The Young Piper" by T. Crofton Croker, "The Pipes: Onset" by Lt. Joseph Lee, "To the Lion Rampant" by Alice MacDonnel, "The Kintalen Changeling" by James MacDougal, "Prisoner of War", "The Pipers o' Buchan" by Peter Buchan, "Maggie Lauder," "The Cow That Ate the Piper (Poem)," "Mr. Vinegar" by Joseph Jacobs", "Tom Tit Tot," and "Diarmid Bawn" by T. Crofton Croker.

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