Edward O’Donnell and his brother Cornelius, based in Brooklyn, New York, were active as vaudevillians and entertainers at least from 1903 to 1920. They performed as “The O’Donnell Brothers.” Ed played uilleann pipes and Con played fiddle and danced; both acted in skits or “playlets.” They came from a musical family. Their father John O’Donnell (1838-1905) was a violinist, born near Kincaslough, The Rosses, Donegal, Ireland. After emigrating to New York, he ran a saloon in what is now the Red Hook neighborhood in Brooklyn, where the O’Donnell family lived in the Henry Street area. From 1903 until about 1913 the brothers made a living as musicians, principally in vaudeville. This involved much travel, mostly in the northeastern states. Their act was neither an outstanding success or an obvious failure. They played mostly “small time” theatres when not in New York City. By the 1920s the brothers were working as clerks for the Borough of Brooklyn. Descendants kept a remarkable amount of material about the O’Donnell Brothers including photographs, newspaper clippings, programs and a scrapbook. For few pipers – or indeed vaudeville acts – has so much survived. These were donated to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, NYC. Music manuscripts also survive, these are housed at the Irish Traditional Music Archive.