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[3] [4] The harp, traditionally associated with the biblical King David, was a rare charge on medieval rolls and only two arms with a harp are listed in a collection of 19 early rolls. [5] Triangular devices appeared on medieval Irish coinage by kings John and Edward I in the 12th and 13th centuries.
The Irish Saint Máedóc of Ferns reliquary shrine dates from c.1100, and clearly shows King David with a triangular framed harp including a "T-Section" in the pillar. [28] The Irish word lamhchrann or Scottish Gaelic làmh-chrann came into use at an unknown date to indicate this pillar which would have supplied the bracing to withstand the ...
[4] [5] [a] After this battle, Dagda discovered his harp hanging on a wall, in a feasting-house wherein Bres and his father Elathan were also. The harp had two names, Daur Dá Bláo [b] ("Oak of Two Meadows" [8] [10] [c]) and Cóir Cetharchair ("Four-Angled Music" [11] or perhaps rather "Four-sided Rectitude" [12] [13]). On this harp, the Dagda ...
The Dalway harp, Cloyne harp, or Fitzgerald harp is an early modern Irish harp whose extant fragments are in the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History. [1] It was made in 1621 by Donnchadh fitz Teig ( Donatus Filius Thadei ) for Sir John MacEdmond Fitzgerald of Cloyne in County Cork [ 2 ] (grandson of John Fitzedmund ...
He was known locally as Dafydd y Garreg Wen (English: David of the White Rock). Y Garreg Wen was the name of the farm where he lived near Morfa Bychan. There is a tradition that as Owen lay on his death bed, he called for his harp and composed the tune of the haunting song. He died at the age of 29 and was buried at St Cynhaearn's Church near ...
The Nigg Stone 790–799 AD carving of a Pictish harp, selected portion of a 19th-century illustration. The earliest depiction of an Irish harp, c.1000—1100 AD. Depicted on the side of the reliquary shrine of St. Máedóc or Mogue of Ferns, County Wexford, Ireland. The origins of the triangular frame harp are unclear.
Thomas Connellan - (c. 1640 – 1698) - Irish harper and composer whose "Molly St. George" is one of the earliest Irish harp songs with extant lyrics; brother of William Connellan; William Connellan - 17th century Irish harper and composer; brother of Thomas Connellan; Cécile Corbel - (born 1980) - Breton recording artist and composer
Carolan's memorial in St Patrick's Cathedral was the gift of Sydney, Lady Morgan.. Carolan was born in 1670 in Nobber, County Meath, [1] where his father was a blacksmith. The family, who were said to be a branch of the Mac Brádaigh sept of County Cavan (Carolan's great-grandfather, Shane Grana O'Carrolan, was chieftain of his sept in 1607 [2]), forfeited their estates during the civil wars ...