Cruit Éireann/Harp Ireland Chair Aibhlín McCrann welcomed the news, saying: "Due to the efforts of a passionate and committed group of harpers, the living tradition of Irish harping is now ...

The Camino then heads for the beautiful Gaeltacht island of Cruit on Day 4. The island, which is shaped like a traditional Irish harp or cruit, is linked to the Donegal mainland by a bridge built ...

When I was asked to reflect on the ten years since the harp report for the Harp Ireland/Cruit Éireann Annual Lecture on 17 November, I had to think hard. What had I learnt over the past ten years ...

The recital has been organised by Gorey-based Aileen Kennedy, a director of the recently established umbrella organisation Harp Ireland, Cruit Éireann. Workshops, sessions, concerts, talks ...

Since the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the Irish harp has been employed as the official emblem of Ireland. In the aftermath of the War of Independence and the Irish Civil War it was ...

But he makes authentic early Irish harps, the kind played by Ann Heymann, an Irish harp music scholar and performer who lives in Winthrop, in southern Minnesota. The two Minnesotans are at the ...

Irish woman Siobhán Brady has successfully played her harp at the summit Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and earned a place in the Guinness World Record Books. The Castletroy, Co Limerick woman ...

THE HARP HAS ENCHANTED PEOPLE SINCE AT LEAST 3000 BC, IN IRELAND, THE INSTRUMENTS, ROOTS RUN DEEP. IT IS THE SYMBOL OF THE COUNTRY AND WAS OFTEN USED TO TELL THE HISTORY OF THE EMERALD ISLE THAT ...