Starting out as a three day festival in 1978 to commemorate Turlough O'Carolan, harper and composer, who is buried in Kilronan Cemetery, this festival and summer school is now a week long ...

A harp festival which has consistently attracted thousands of music lovers to Co Roscommon each year is appealing for funds for a permanent base. Several thousand people will this week attend the ...

Harpers and traditional musicians are expected in large numbers to the picturesque village of Keadue, on the shores of Lough Meelagh for the 32nd O'Carolan Harp Festival which takes place from July ...

A national composer with an international stature, the 'blind harper' Turlough O'Carolan will be honoured at next week's Fleadh… A national composer with an international stature, the 'blind harper' ...

Patrick Ball is a Californian. He grew up in Marin County and settled some 15 years ago in Sebastopol. But his heart belongs to Ireland. ”Growing up, we always knew we were Irish, and were somehow ...

Celtic music, says Robin Williamson — he of the late, great Incredible String Band — is “an acorn that will grow another forest yet.” Williamson could as well have been referring to one man, four of ...

Harpers from Cork and beyond have been making the most of online interaction, and a 240-strong ensemble will perform O’Carolan’s ‘Fanny Power’ this weekend, writes Pet O’Connell. GROWING up just south ...

Turlough O'Carolan was an Irish harper, composer, and singer, who gained great fame due to his exceptional gift for composition. He was born in Nobber, Co. Meath in 1670. When he was 14, his father ...

Saturday is the fourth annual National Harp Day - Lá na Cruite - and organisers are determined to forge ahead with their latest celebration of the old instrument despite the many restrictions in their ...

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Liam Purcell, Tommy Guihen, Declan Noone playing at the O'Carolan Festival, Keadue Photo taken at the Harp Workshop at the O'Carolan Summer School in Keadue Photo taken at the Concertina workshop at ...