The tradition of having bagpipes at firefighters' funerals ... of the cops or firefighters. The lyrics of the first verse of “The Minstrel Boy” are as follows. In the accompanying video ...

The bagpipe performance of "The Minstrel Boy" was just a small part of the greening of the White House on March 17, the first time that proud Irish American Biden celebrated St. Patrick's Day as ...

The bagpipes will be blaring on Fifth Avenue this St. Patrick’s Day. And the plaintive, eerie notes remind us of the tragedies in Irish history. The words of one song, "The Minstrel Boy," come ...