Felix Doran (musician)

Felix Doran (died 1972) was an Irish Traveller who was known for traditional music from the early 1920s to the 1970s as uilleann pipe player.

[1] Felix and his brother Johnny Doran are descendants of nineteenth-century Wexford piper John Cash.

[2][3] Doran was an Irish Traveller uilleann piper who was recorded by Ciaran MacMathuna for RTÉ and by Peter Kennedy and Sean Davies.

[4] Doran and his family were known to entertain at fairs and race meetings in Ireland.

He did well and became wealthy, and ordered a set of silver uillean pipes from an engineer in Germany.