Patrick Cummins (piper)
Patrick Cummins, aka Cummings (fl. 1820s) was an Irish piper and tutor.
Cummins was a native of or near Athenry, where his family had kept a 'college' for pipers for generations. He himself taught many pipers, such as , , , (grandfather of Patsy Touhey), and his own son, Professor John Cummings (1828-after 1913).
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- Irish pipers of distinction, Chapter XXII, Irish Minstrels and Musicians, by Capt. Francis O'Neill, Chicago, 1913.
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Categories:
- Musicians from County Galway
- Irish uilleann pipers
- 18th-century Irish musicians
- 19th-century Irish musicians