About Edmund Keating Hyland
Lived 1780 – 1845 (aged 64–65). Edmund Keating Hyland was a musician, uilleann piper and composer.
Edmund Keating Hyland (; 1780 – 1845) was an Irish uilleann piper of the early 19th century.
Biography 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.
He composed the famous jig entitled "The Fox Chase" (based on an earlier eight-bar work, Maidrin Ruadh), and performed it before King George IV in 1821. The king awarded him new pipes worth fifty guineas.
He died in Dublin in 1845, aged 65.
Commemoration 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.
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musical artist
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Edmund Keating Hyland was born in 1780 in Cahir.
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Edmund Keating Hyland died in 1845 in Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland.
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