The Pied Piper of Hamelin is the title character of a legend from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany.
Juan O'Gorman was a Mexican painter and architect.
The Tortilla Curtain is a 1995 novel by American author T.C. Boyle. It is about middle-class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction. In 1997, it was awarded the French Prix Médicis Étranger prize for best foreign novel.
Baron de Freyne, of Coolavin in the County of Sligo, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1851 for Arthur French, 1st Baron de Freyne, with remainder to his younger brothers John, Charles and Fitzstephen French. He had earlier represented County Roscommon in the House of Commons and later served as Lord Lieutenant of County Roscommon. French had already been created Baron de Freyne, of Artagh in the County of Roscommon, in 1839, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom but with normal remainder to heirs male. Lord de Freyne was childless and on his death in 1856 the barony of 1839 creation became extinct. The barony of 1851 creation survives according to the special remainder by his younger brother John, the second Baron.
Arthur Reginald French, 5th Baron de Freyne was Anglo-Irish military officer of the British Army who had also served in the ranks in the United States Army.
Prentice John Delaney Jr., better known as Sean Delaney, was an American musician, producer, road manager and songwriter, best known for his work with the rock band KISS from the early 1970s until the early 1980s. He is largely credited with developing their choreography onstage, and co-wrote many songs with Paul Stanley, including "Mr. Speed", "Makin' Love", and "Take Me" from the 1976 album Rock and Roll Over, and "All American Man" from the studio side of the 1977 album Alive II.
Nicholas Burke, was an Irish uilleann piper.
Paddy Conneely was a blind Irish piper and singer.
Martin O'Reilly (1829–1904) was a blind Irish piper.
William Madden, Irish piper.
Nance the Piper is an Irish piper.
John Moore (1834–1894) was an Irish piper.
Patrick Flannery was an Irish piper.
William Walsh, Irish piper.
Professor John Cummings was an Irish piper.
Peter Kelly was an Irish piper. Kelly was born in the town of Galway but blinded in infancy. When old enough, his parents saw to it that he was taught the pipes by Martin O'Reilly as a means of ensuing his welfare. When aged about thirty he moved to Glasgow with fiddler John Crockwell, where he married and had nine children. He was survived upon his death by his widow and three children.
Denis "Dinny" Delaney was a well-known blind Irish piper who lived most of his life in Ballinasloe. The Dinny Delaney Festival is celebrated annually in Ballinasloe in his honour.
James O'Brien (1823–1885), Irish piper.
Michael Wallace, Irish piper.
John K. Beatty, Irish uilleann piper.