Irish bagpipe
McAuliffe recorded 14 bagpipe selections for Edison's
National Phonograph Company from 1899 through 1903.
James C. McAuliffe with his Irish (uilleann) bagpipe. Date uncertain (1890s?).
A humorous story about this photo . . .
Related by John McAuliffe, great-grandson of James C. McAuliffe:
Working in a penitentiary at the time, John brought this photograph to work
with him one day to have it framed. An inmate of the prison asked,
"What is that, a Gatling gun?" The prison psychologist remarked to
John that the inmate showed "the typical criminal response:
anything tubular must be a weapon."
Later, when John brought the framed photograph home, his father asked,
"What is that, a Gatling gun?"
Tintype (ca. 1880) of wife Ellen S., James C., and son William.
Photocopy of obituary, Standard Press of Hoosick Falls (New York), date not known.
— The preceding photographs are from the collection of John McAuliffe —
(great-grandson of James C.)
