Historical Harp Society of Ireland Concert
Parade Tower OPW Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Kilkenny, IrelandThe King's Harper: The Irish Harp at the 17th-century English Court In 1605, King James I of England employed the first ‘royal’ Irish harper to work at the court in London: Cormac MacDermott. This gave rise to an extraordinary ensemble in which the melting sound of his early Irish harp’s brass-wire strings was woven together […]