Irish language documentary about the 1968 gathering of pipers that saved the uilleann pipes from extinction.
The uilleann pipes, on the point of dying out in the 1960s, are now a vibrant part of the music scene in Ireland and internationally. From a handful of pipers a few generations back, it is estimated that there are now six thousand players of this uniquely Irish instrument. This is the story of the first piping tionól held in April 1968 in Bettystown in County Meath – a first hand account of what happened on the day Na Píobairí Uilleann was formed, and the uilleann pipes were saved back from the threat of extinction.