Patrick Cummins, aka Cummings (
fl.
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
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
Owen Cunnigam,
Michael Kenny (piper),
Patsy Mullin,
Michael Touhey (grandfather of
Patsy Touhey
Patsy is a given name often used as a diminutive of the feminine given name Patricia or sometimes the masculine name Patrick, or occasionally other names containing the syllable "Pat" (such as Cleopatra, Patience, Patrice, or Patricia). Among It ...
), and his own son,
Professor John Cummings
Professor John Cummings (c. 1828-after 1913) was an Irish piper.
A son of Patrick Cummins (fl. 1820s), Cummings was raised near Athenry, where his family had performed and taught music for generations. The family name was originally rendered C ...
(1828-after 1913).
References
* ''Irish pipers of distinction'', Chapter XXII, ''Irish Minstrels and Musicians'', by Capt.
Francis O'Neill,
Chicago, 1913.
External links
* http://billhaneman.ie/IMM/IMM-XXII.html
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Musicians from County Galway
Irish male musicians
18th-century Irish uilleann pipers
19th-century Irish uilleann pipers