| Biography | Francis McPeake II (1917-1986) was a Northern Irish uilleann piper.
McPeake II was a member of the McPeake trio alongside his father and brother James. the trio were admired by Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Van Morrison and others and, in 1965, at Pete Seegers instigation, they traveled to the USA, where they performed for President Johnson at the White House.
McPeake founded the Clonard Music School in 1977 and his son Francis III continued it. |