Hi all, Now that those of us who attended the super Scoil na gCláirseach have had a little time to catch our breath, I would love to hear what you other...
SCOIL NA gCLAIRSEACH Summer School of Early Irish Harp 2007 The Historical Harp Society of Ireland presented its fifth annual Scoil na gCláirseach–Summer...
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Dear friends, We've just realised that one institution was inadvertently left off our thank you list in our Scoil report to you: We would like to thank Dr....
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Dear Karen, The link that Simon gave is possibly the older version of the article. I keep editing my website according to information or realisations that...
Hi Alasdair, Thanks for your insight on Scott's Lamentation. I haven't spent as much time as I would like on this - have been pursuing some other intersting...
Dear Karen, I hope you managed to detach yourself from the computer keyboard after typing that. I notice that Ann interprets the aa as a dotted quaver as well,...
Hi Alasdair, it was a nice suprise to bump into you in Edinburgh yesterday, sorry I did not have more leisure to hang around and chat longer. To pick up on...
The trick is to go and listen to them in the sessions in Ireland, go to workshops etc. As far as archive material, you will find Comhaltas very helpful there....
Dear Simon It does not sound from your message as though yo have investigated the School of Scottish Studies online Tocher site ? at www.pearl.arts.ed.ac.uk ...
Thanks Keith, yes that is a good presentation, however it seems that there is hardly any material up there and it is only a 'trial run' for a project that...
Simon As I understand the idea behind the Tocher site it was a work in progress and would be added to as time and money allowed. However for some reason my...
Keith ... Of course. I was thinking in more general terms of style and idiom. We have an instrument, i.e replica medieval or baroque harps, e.g. a HHSI Student...
Limavady Borough Council in association with the Historical Harp Society of Ireland presents a 200th Anniversary Celebration of the early Irish harper Dennis...
I-tunes has an old recoding of Nansi Richards playing this on the Welsh triple harp. It's the Edward Jones 1802 version from his "musical and Poetical Relicks...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/music/tv/ I didnt see it but heard there were harps in it Its repeated on Tuesday 7pm Anyone else in Scotland been watching?...
Hi All, Just been to the link Simon posted if you go down the page you can watch a snippet of Catriona McKay on the Harp accompanied by a man on a lute (I...
The preamble leading up to the harp was fine, good pictures of some of the stones with correct dates and so on, but the part with actual harper turned into the...
I have been watching it and enjoying. Its probably not in any depth but it does portray the varied types of music of the past and certainly introduced me to...
Unfortunately I only caught the second half this evening. I agree with you Keith, I also found that annoying, espescially when Ms. McKay said the clarsach was...
Well I agree mostly, it was nice in a 'raising national conciousness' kind of way but Phil was very full of himself, he has a very odd sense of appropriate...
Mary did indeed like the driving bits. I have to agree about the harp sections. All in all not a first class programme which was disappointing as it was a...
A' chàirdean, I came across this seann fhacal (old saying) in my reading today. It belongs to a genre of seann fhaclan purporting to give advice on choosing...
Dear friends, On this, the Winter Solstice, the Historical Harp Society of Ireland would like to wish you, your families and loved ones our very best wishes...
Siobhán Armstrong
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Happy New Year all, I've posted links to Vol. II and Vol. III of Eugene O'Curry's book. These have been scanned in by google and are searchable and also...
I'm just looking through "Scottish Life and Culture : A compendium of Scottish Ethnology Volume 10: Oral Literature and Performance Culture" As well as having...
Thanks Karen. There are some other useful things on google books incl. Logan's "Scottish gael" which was mentioned here recently. I have paper copies of...
The volume in question did have a remarkedly long gestation period between submission of content and final publication,although whether long enough for the...
Thanks Keith. I decided that actually both of these looked worth having - not just for the harp articles but more for the context - its all too easy to get...
Folks, I would like to experiment playing my harp with a guitar effects pedal board... I am sure our ancestors would have loved playing with this stuff if they...
