O'Neill states that the German traveler, Kohl, published a work on Ireland in 1844, & speaks of a young blind harper playing 'Brian Boru's March', at Drogheda in1843. Mrs. S C Hall, a famous author, in her writtings tells of the wedding of Biddy Donovan & Morty Maguire in 1840, & the good luck to find a blind piper to play & how 20 years later found him again , who was refered to as the 'silent piper', playing the same "bold, brave notes of 'Brian Boru's March' which she calls the national march. Barry
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