Owen Bohan (fl. 1850s) was an Irish piper.

A native of Clonbur, County Galway, Owen and his brother, Patrick R. Bohan, were famed pipers. Nicholas Burke, who heard them perform in his boyhood, said "They had a great name as Irish pipers." The piper Richard Stephenson is known to have studied under the brothers.

Owen Bohan

Unlike most Irish pipers and musicians, neither of the Bohans was lame, blind, or in any way infirm. But they enjoyed travelling, all over Ireland and England, with Liverpool being an especial destination.

Owen Bohan

Owen appears to have settled in either Dublin or Liverpool, and no further details of his life are known.

Owen Bohan

See also

Paddy Conneely (died 1851) Martin O'Reilly (1829-1904)

References

Famous Pipers who flourished principally in the second half of the nineteenth century Chapter 21 in Irish Minstrels and Musicians, by Capt. Francis O'Neill, 1913.

External links

http://billhaneman.ie/IMM/IMM-XXI.html

Irish expatriates in the United Kingdom

Musicians from County Galway

Irish male uilleann pipers

19th-century Irish male musicians

19th-century Irish uilleann pipers