I am so impress by the work down on the Carel’s picture “Johnny Doran or not” that I was wandering about of my favorit picture. I hop it will becomes visible and if it appear it will be thinks to Kevin Krell. Kevin help me to put this picture in this new topic.
Merci Kévin!
So, who is this piper?
sorry
I hop the picture will comes soon…
Mark Wahlstrom has identified the piper earlier on this forum:
http://www.pipeshow.net/board/uploads/av-6.jpg
George McCarthy from Co. Cavan. There is some info about him in O’Neill’s IM&M. O’Neill says he played a fine silver mounted Taylor set although this set in the photos is a Michael Egan. McCarthy died in 1908. In the 1903 picture issued as a postcard from NPU, " Pipers of the 19th Century" he is also shown playing this M.Egan set. Mark
Ho!
Haw did you find that I was speking about this piper without the picture???
Well I have to say that I am impress by the members of this forum. Inded, they giev you the answer before the question!
Merci Steampacket
A good place to look for old pictures of dead pipers is http://www.uilleannobsession.com/. Look under the Diary pages. There are tons of images, usually with background information.
djm
Hello Sylain,
I saw your letter on the French pipeshow site asking how to send the photo and just put a link to the thumbnail photo. No wait.. I’m physic and can see into your head ..yeah, that’s it.
Where is now the George McCarthy’s uilleann pipes?
Ashamed to say i didnt know much about this fellow Cavan man (he looks like many people i know at home!). 
But i will try to find out a bit about him when i go to Cavan next time.
Thank Connor. I am interested to have more informations on this piper.
We used to see him sometimes, but never often enough 
The abmidexterous piper (he pays RHS in the photo and LHS on the note).
Hi,
I have one at home in a nice fram. I did it, cause I thought that they will destroy all of them for the “€”!!!
Liam McNulty, the last NPU’s secretary, told me that the National Irsih Bank “Central Bank” in 1995 wanted to have a irish bagpipe picture on this note. NPU gived them the anthropomorphisme letter “M” enluminure from the book of Kell . But this letter was a pig playing a piob mor. The bank did not wanted the Irish national 50£ will be associated to a pig. They asked something else… more humain. NPU give then the picture of a piper. Robert Ballagh, painter, did a reproduction…
The print process put the picture in the miror position.
I used to see Piper McCarthy in various editions of “Lawrence’s Views of Ireland” folio-sized books of photographs on Irish subjects,(I bought his “Views of Dublin”,1899 edition, in 1972). Mr.McCarthy’s image was widely distributed in these books and on postcards, and on a poster for an Irish Music festival at San Mateo, California, March 6th 1981. He was a real mystery for so long , it was a real kick seeing him on a Fifty Pound note, AND knowing his name! Sean an Piobaire
The Brooklyn piper Rick O’Shea sent me a nice print of the bowler hat/pint take of this piper, and said that it, drum roll, isin’t McCarthy! I forget who Rick said it was supposed to be, another well known name from those times.
No, not Francie McPeake or Johnny Doran.
I believe O’Neill says McCarthy’s pipes wound up with R.L. O’Meally, they were a Taylor set with double chanter.
In the groupphoto of the (i think) 1901 Feis ceol this man is always identified as George McCarthy.
WHen I first had prints made of of all the piping pictures in the Lawrence collection in 1983 in the National Library several suggestions were made : Stephen Ruanne was one (Chris Langan came up with that, Martin Rochford was sure the pics were made in Woodford) and there were several others. WHen the 50 punt note was issued Liam McNulty did some research and came up with George McCarthy(see an piobaire). In combination with the Feis pic, I think we can settle for that
The annual George McCarthy inquisition 
There’s more on George and previous conversations on the matter at:
http://www.uilleannobsession.com/diary_2003.html#george_mccarthy
http://www.uilleannobsession.com/diary_2004.html#george_mccarthy
Patrick.
Nobody expected the George McCarthy inquisition. The two things the inquisition was infamous for was … oh never mind…
McCarty-ism. Ugly.
Are you a member of the SC Uilleann Pipers?
em… no… well… no.. I will have to say no… please no more questions!
Bring in… the COMFY CHAIR!!!