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Kilmainhamwood pageant

An O'Carolan festival was held in Kilmainhamwood in 1970 to celebrate the tricentenary of the birth of O'Carolan. Members of the pageant included Carolan as a boy and as an adult, Bridget Cruise, Mrs MacDermottroe and her husband and some of the patrons for whom Carolan composed music.

Tá Ó Cearúlláin ag fáil bháis

Nuair a d’éirigh Ó Cearúlláin sean agus breoite chuaigh sé ar ais chuig a chara Bean Mhic Dhiarmada Rua agus d’fhan sé ina teach. Thug sí aire dó go dtí gur fuair sé bás i 1738 agus é 68 bliain d’aois.

Courtesy Leabhar Breac, Indreabhán, Conamara

Ó Cearúlláin agus Brid Chrús

Nuair a bhí siad sean bhuail Ó Cearúlláin lena chara ón óige, Bríd Chrús, ag Loch Dearg.

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Portrait of Carolan the Irish bard

James Christopher Timbrell (1807-1850), the Dublin born painter and sculptor, exhibited this painting of Carolan the Irish Bard at the Royal Academy in London in 1844. Carolan is shown as he would have performed for a patron and guests in one of the Big Houses of Ireland.

Courtesy of Sotheby's

Seineann Ó Cearúlláin an cláirseach.

Sheinm Ó Cearúlláin an cláirseach do dhaoine saibhre agus do dhaoine tábhachtaí. Scríobh sé a chuid ceol féin chun imeachtaí sona a cheiliúradh ina saol féin. Bhí grá ag daoine dó mar gur sheinm sé ceol álainn.

Courtesy Leabhar Breac, Indreabhán, Conamara

Derek Bell

Derek Bell, musician with the Chieftains, was one of the first musicians to play and record Carolan's music in recent times.

Courtesy of the Nobber Harp Festival Committee

Presidential Seal

This is the presidential seal of Ireland devised in 1937 and still in use in this design. The harp, Ireland's national symbol, is based on the great Harp of Ireland in Trinity college, sometimes called Brian Boru's harp.

Courtesy of Merlin/Wolfhound Press

State Emblem on Modern Irish Coinage

The great harp of Ireland in Trinity College, also sometimes referred to as Brian Boru's harp, is used as the model for the harp that represents Ireland on all Irish coinage.

Courtesy of Merlin/Wolfhound Press

Harp lesson with Dearbhail Finnegan at Nobber

The Meath Harp School was set up under the auspices of the Harp Festival to provide expert tuition to harp students. Dearbhail Finnegan teaches the harp and has brought students to a high level of competency.

Courtesy of Nobber Harp Festival Committee

Ó Cearúlláin agus a threoraí

Bhí treoraí ag taisteal ó Ó Cearúlláin chun taisteal ar fud na hÉireann agus cabhair a thabhairt dó.

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