This is a song that Kevin Burke sang during a Bothy Band performance about the piper at a party who gets his pipes ruined. I saw a reference to this somewhere and actually viewed the video on Youtube. Have not been able to find it again, and a friend brought it up the other day in conversation. Any ideas where it has gone?
Ah, bummer! We loved that video. Probably a copyright issue?
My fella sings it; when he does we all fall about 
Edited to add: I looked in my youtube playlists and no sign of it. I’m sure it was there. Anyway, a whole lot of the Bothy Band stuff that was also in there is listed as “no longer available” – so I suspect that Mrs. Gilooly’s party is over. 
Looks like it…shame on them.
I saw on the BBC news, a few minutes ago, that the premium stuff is banned from Youtube. No more chart topping material..alas.
Bothys are getting cut down and all…
Buddy Holly, Glen Miller, Patsy Cline, Lynard and Stevie Ray all died in plane crashes. You cannot get Bon Jovi into a plane for love or money.
There is no justice…
Slan,
D. 
If you’re looking for a copy of the song, the Frank Maher and the Mahers Bahers version is available from Amazon’s MP3 collection. Having never heard Kevin Burke’s version, I don’t know how it compares, but Frank’s version is one of his standard party pieces.
dub! You’re hilarious.
Kevin’s version … don’t know about the Amazon fellow’s, but Kevin’s performance was a masterpiece. The way he put his hands in his pockets and peeked out from under the brim of his cap like he was on the lookout for an “Irish packed-toe” 
One of the best bits I’ve ever seen. I wonder whether it was on “Come West?, Etc.” It was from around the Embankment-video (also vanishing) era.
I do need to buy those DVDs …
You can find Kevin Burke’s singing of Mrs gilhooleys party on the Come West Along the Road volume 2 DVD. I suspect that’s where the youtube poster got it from…
I was recently at a Chulrua concert at the Alberta St. Public House in Portland, and during the break, owner Mikey Beglan put the Come West Along The Road DVD on. As we sat there watching Kevin doing his thing singing this, an infamous Portland button box player whom I shall refer to as “Mr. X” (but whose real name is Felim Egan) shouted “What is this?! A feckin’ Jenny Craig commercial?!”