Well, I know at least one Piper is a Wallace.

And I know Wallace isn't Irish, but I am.

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eImUnZ2PrZiaac0 compare the pair

MacKay is a Scottish name, that would imply the man buried is of scottish heritage hence the bagpipes and kilts

Kevin Kelly So why is it called the Emerald society ... What has anything Scottish got to with the Irish.

Kevin Kelly If these people in the video are from the Emerald society, which is obviously an Irish American group, why are they all wearing Scottish Kilts and Tartan.

Kevin Kelly The earliest Irish mention of the bagpipe is in 1206, approximately thirty years after the Anglo-Norman invasion. Obviously the instrument began to catch on in Ireland but as to whether it was the English or French variant, is anyone's guess. It certainly was not the Scottish Great Highland pipe, the Piob Mor, because that instrument had yet to work it's way up from England. Both England and France used the bagpipe in processions, church services, and festivities. The first pictorial representation of the native Irish mouth blown pipe is in 1578 and it shows a two-drone pipe much like both the English and French instruments.

Kevin Kelly By the way, no one in Ireland or Scotland ever referred to the mouth blown bagpipe (the Piob Mor) as a "war pipe". It was sixteenth and seventeenth century English writers who first used the expression and with such continued persistence as to lead one to speculate that the instrument possibly was known in England, in earlier times, as a war pipe