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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Rose Mooney (section Belfast Harp Festival)
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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Pibroch (section Harp precedents for pibroch)
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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Janet Harbison (redirect from Irish Harp Centre)
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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Donnchadh Ó hAmhsaigh (section His music and harp)
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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Irish traditional music (section Harp)
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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