Dooagh Pipe Band

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Welcome to the home page of Dooagh Pipe Band, a bagpipe band from Achill Island on the west coast of Ireland.

Dooagh,
Achill,
Co. Mayo, Ireland.

News

I hope that you enjoyed St. Patrick's Day 2012 despite the horrible conditions on the day itself in Achill. Photos from the parade are NOW ready along with photos from the Band Social. Click on the St. Patrick's Day 2012 or Band Social 2012 to view the photos. Other photos have been posted in the Dooagh Pipe Band on Facebook.

I found some photos from the 2000 St. Patrick's Day parade and Pipe Band Dance recently. Now they online and I hope you enjoy them.

More options for photos are now available. Click on any photo and there are links in Green at the bottom of each photo. You can share photos on Facebook, Twitter or Google+. You can send photos as eCards to an email address. It is also possible to order prints and downloads.

Check out Dooagh Pipe Band on Facebook. You do NOT need to join Facebook to view the public posts on there.

Are you looking forward to St. Patrick's Day this year? As March 17 is on a Saturday, it is expected to be a more popular than ever. Will get any photos and news as quickly as possible online here. Do you think some features or changes that you think would make the site better? Then feel free to email them to me paul @ dooagh.com.

Contribute Photos

If you have any photos of the Dooagh Pipe Band, you can upload them to Flickr (having an account there is free) and add the tag "dooaghpb" to the photo. It can be found using the following search which I have added to the links above. You can see the search by clicking here.
Alternatively, you can send them to the site by email to photos at dooagh.com and include as much information as possible (for example, date of the photo, who is in it, who took it, etc).

Click here for a map of the parade path.

Why the website?

Many generations of Achill's people have emigrated throughout the world.This website enables many of those people to keep in touch with one of Achill's most popular events, the St. Patrick's Day parade. This website first went online in 1997 and is the oldest Irish pipeband website. Yes, it's even older than Facebook, Twitter or Google. There is also the interest in pipe bands that come from all over the world, judging from the variety of countries that look at this site. Welcome to you all and enjoy the site.

Background

Dooagh Pipe Band was founded on 17th of March 1947 with a membership of 11. Every year, without fail, the band has paraded on St. Patrick's Day even through years when the toll of emigration was heavy in the 1950's and 1960's.

Down the years, equipment and uniforms have been purchased with funds generated by outings, fundraising and donations from the people of Achill, both at home and abroad.

Activities

The band's year begins in mid-October when practise sessions start. This is held on a weekly basis on Saturday nights until the end of January. Then the practising begins in earnest with 3 or 4 sessions a week leading up to the highlight of the band's year - St. Patrick's Day. New Year's Eve is celebrated with a parade at midnight from Dooagh to Pollagh Church where the new year is welcomed in earnest.

The band attends around 15 functions each year. These range from football matches to weddings, festivals, horse shows and official openings of premises to name but a few.

Contact

Would you like to contact the band? Email the following address for bookings and information to dooaghpb@gmail.com.

Ideas? Problems?

If you have any ideas, suggestions, wish to contribute new features for the site, notice incorrect information on the page or if photos do not load properly, please email me at paul@dooagh.com and I will resolve the problem.

Dooagh Pipe Band

Dooagh, Achill, Co. Mayo, Ireland. Established 1947.

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