Edward J. Mullaney, often known as Eddie, was a well-known uilleann piper in Chicago for many years. He was probably best known for numerous radio broadcasts from 1931 until at least 1948. He recorded pipes and fiddle duets with Patrick Stack in Chicago in 1926. Mullaney was born in Chicago, but grew up in Ireland, where he learned to play the pipes. He returned to Chicago, aged 20, in 1904. For much of his life he was a factory worker; music was an avocation. Eddie’s primary address was on South Preoria Street where he lived with his wife, Margaret and family for many years. Mullaney succeeded Tom Ennis as piper on the popular Irish Hour radio show in 1931. In the 1930s he was playing on the radio and a woman called the station. She had a set of Irish pipes in her attic. Mullaney acquired the set, which turned out to have been made by the Taylor brothers of Philadelphia for John K. Beatty of Chicago, perhaps about 1880. It is among the heaviest and most elaborate sets known to have been made by the Taylors. Mullaney played the set for many years, and finally passed it along to his nephew, Joe Shannon of Chicago in 1967.