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    The Belfast Harp Festival, called by contemporary writers The Belfast Harpers Assembly, 11–14 July 1792, was a three-day musical and patriotic event organised...
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  • Dr. James McDonnel called on the Harpers Assembly in Belfast to revive the Ancient tradition of the harp. The festival ran from 11 July to 14 July 1792...
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    Turlough O'Carolan (category Composers for harp)
    Arthur O'Neill, Patrick Quin and Donnchadh Ó hÁmsaigh, attended the Belfast Harp Festival. Ó hÁmsaigh played some of Carolan's music, but disliked it for...
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    Edward Bunting (1773–1843), Irish folklorist, organiser of the 1792 Belfast Harp Festival Henry Cooke (1788–1868), Presbyterian Moderator, evangelist, proponent...
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    Bunting in 1792, based on a performance by harper Denis Hempson (Donnchadh Ó hAmhsaigh) at the Belfast Harp Festival. The poem and the tune together were published...
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    Yeats, Gráinne (1980). Féile na gCruitirí, Béal Feirste [The Belfast Harpers' Festival] 1972. Gael Linn, ISBN 0-86233-025-4. Le Govic, pp. 1 John Bannerman...
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    Belfast Harp Society (1808-1813) and its successor, the Irish Harp Society (1819-1839), were philanthropic associations formed in the town of Belfast...
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  • aged 88. The Belfast Harp Festival 1792–1992 Féile Cruitirí Bhéal Feirste: Gael-Linn CEFCD 156 (double-CD, 1992). "Some Thoughts on Irish Harp Music", in...
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    published in 1796, contained 66 tunes which he had notated at the Belfast Harp Festival. The second volume was published in 1809. In 1840, Bunting issued...
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    Bunting in 1792 based on a performance by harper Donnchadh Ó Hámsaigh (Denis Hempson) at the Belfast Harp Festival, and the tune would later become well known...
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    the historical Gaelic harp and the first Irish traditional musician to be photographed. Following on from the Belfast Harp Festival of 1792 various attempts...
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  • March", on The Belfast Harp Festival 1792–1992 (CD), 1992. Gael-linn, CEFCD 156. Yeats has restored this tune to the wire-strung harp, informed by documented...
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  • Giovanni Paisiello's opera I giuochi d'Agrigento. July 11–14 – The Belfast Harp Festival in Ireland brings together and records the work of most of the remaining...
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    the building came to be known by its current name. It housed the Belfast Harp Festival of 1792, public meetings and, following the Irish Rebellion of 1798...
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  • tunes. Edward Bunting (1773–1843) collected tunes from the harpers at the Belfast Harp Festival. He made extensive collections of tunes which he published...
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  • popular part of the Irish harp repertoire of the 18th century. Charles Fanning won first prize at the Belfast Harp Festival of 1792 with a performance...
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    prizes at these festivals, including Charles Fanning, Arthur O'Neill, and Rose Mooney went on to perform at the Belfast Harp Festival in July 1792. There...
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    collecting Irish music at the Belfast Harp Festival. "A History of St George's". The Parish Church of Saint George Belfast. Retrieved 27 November 2010....
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  • festivals and conferences. She made arrangements for the bicentenary of the Belfast Harpers' Assembly in 1992, including: the World Harp Festival, Belfast...
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  • circumstance he derives his appellative, "the man with two heads." Belfast Harp Festival Chadwick, Simon (5 November 2007). "Denis O'Hampsey". earlygaelicharp...
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  • number of concerts in various towns around Ireland, such as the Belfast Harp Festival of 1903. A photograph was taken of him by a Father Fielding in Dublin...
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  • and harp playing seem on occasions to have gone hand in hand in Gaelic Ireland, but O'Mongáin did not appear at the Harp Festival of 1792 in Belfast, and...
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  • Higgins, blind Native of Mayo age 75 years, who performed at the Belfast Harp Festival in 1791. He had performed at Granard in 1791 "but won no premiums...
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    notated in collections such as Edward Bunting's (he attended the Belfast Harp Festival in 1792) in which the tunes were most often modified to make them...
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    1963 Edward Bunting (1773–1843) – collected tunes from the harpers at the Belfast Harp Festival; made extensive collections of tunes which he published in...
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    Edward Bunting collected some of the last-known Irish harp tunes at the Belfast Harp Festival in 1792. Other important collectors of Irish music include...
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    Irishmen is formed in Belfast by Theobald Wolfe Tone, James Napper Tandy and Thomas Russell. 1792 – The Belfast Harp Festival takes place with the aim...
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  • Dundalk Maytime Festival and Dundalk FC. In 2005, Harp saw a makeover as Diageo Ireland separated the brand from Guinness. The last Harp was brewed at Great...
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    Botanic Gardens is a public garden in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Occupying 28 acres (110,000 m2) of south Belfast, the gardens are popular with office...
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  • Irish Times; Fine Folk in Belfast 22 August 1996 Irish Times; Belfast Folk Festival, Elmwood Hall 4 September 1996 Belfast Telegraph, Invitation too good...
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