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- Born
- 1872
- Died
- 1958
- Citizenship
- Occupation
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3 identifiers linking Patsy Brown across the web's reference databases
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Patrick A. 'Patsy' Brown was an Irish-American maker of the uilleann pipes. Originally from Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, he emigrated to the United States in 1892, making his home first in Chicago and then the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. He may have made a living as a bricklayer and/or electrician. He made uilleann pipes on a part-time basis, out of his cellar, so his output was not huge, but his style is very distinctive. He may have made sets from about 1910 until his death in 1958. It is believed that, like many Irish musicians of his time, he played for dancers in the clubs around Dudley Square, Dorchester.