Edmund Keating Hyland

Edmund Keating Hyland (Irish: Éamonn Céitinn Ó Haoláin; 1780 – 1845) was an Irish uilleann piper of the early 19th century.^[1][2]

Edmund Keating Hyland
Born	1780 Cahir, County Tipperary, Ireland
Died	1845 (age 65) Dublin, Ireland
Genres	Irish traditional music
Occupation	Piper
Instrument	uilleann pipes
Years active	1799–1845

Keating Hyland plaque, Cahir

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.^[3]

He composed the famous jig entitled "The Fox Chase" (based on an earlier eight-bar work, Maidrin Ruadh),^[4] and performed it before King George IV in 1821.^[5][6][7] The king awarded him new pipes worth fifty guineas.^[8]

He died in Dublin in 1845, aged 65.^[9]

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.^[10][11]