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41 COURTNEY’S ‘UNION PIPES’ AND THE TERMINOLOGY OF IRISH BELLOWS-BLOWN BAGPIPES
COURTNEY’S ‘UNION PIPES’ AND THE TERMINOLOGY OF IRISH BELLOWS-BLOWN BAGPIPES 42 Later in the same month, at a benefit for him, Courtney is extending his performance repertory in a more Irish direction: ‘Mr Courtney will introduce several Airs on the Union Pipes, particularly The Munster Lilt, And Papa! Papa! Mama! Mama! 120 By this time he is being billed as ‘Performer on the Union Pipes to the Prince of Wales’, and is also now performing ‘Ellenaroon’ 121 and ‘the favourite Air of Coolun’. 122 These are among the ‘Irish lilts’ and ‘Irish airs’ he now regularly performs. By June 1793 Courtney’s Irish visit only had a few weeks to run, and the publicity stops were being pulled out for another benefit for him: The performance of... Mr. Courtney... on the Union Pipes is justly admired here as well as in England, and this evening he is to give such further instances of his abilities, as never were known before. This... is a desirable treat; and as Mr. Courtney, who has had the honour of being countenanced for his singular merit on the Union Pipes, by his Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, is shortly to return to England, it is probable those who delight in that music, will never have such another opportunity of enjoyment. 123 In the event Courtney stayed on in Dublin for another six weeks, and finished up the theatrical season in the Theatre Royal at the end of July in his by now usual style: ‘Mr. Courtney will perform the celebrated Overture and Rondeau of Oscar and Malvina, with several favourite Irish Airs, on the Union Pipes’. 124 120 Freeman’s Journal, Dublin, 14 May 1793. 121 Irish ‘Eibhlín a Rún’ (Eileen my love). Freeman’s Journal, Dublin, 18 May 1793. 122 Irish ‘An Chúilfhionn’ (The fair-haired girl). Freeman’s Journal, Dublin, 18 May 1793. 123 Freeman’s Journal, Dublin, 11 June 1793. 124 Freeman’s Journal, Dublin, 30 July 1793. He appeared on the same bill as Robert Owenson, who was performing a ‘Planxty in character’.
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