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Skull of Carolan the Bard
What is reputed to be Carolan's skull is kept in the National Museum in Dublin. These photographs of it were taken by the Rev. L. Donnellan in the early twentieth century.
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O Carolan Harp and Cultural and Heritage Festival 2005
The 2005 festival programme lists all the competitions, events and workshops taking place in Nobber for the festival weekend. As had become custom over the year the official opening and lecture took place in Nobber library. the lecute by Seamus MacGabhann was on The Anglo-Norman Influence on North Meath Heritage.
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O Carolan Harp and Cultural and Heritage Festival 2005 -
O Carolan Harp and Cultural Festival 1995
The 1995 festival programme listed all the festival events for that year. There was an article on the Belfast Harp Orchestra who made a return visit to Nobber in 1995. Articles on Voices of Pre-Famine Meath and on Archaeological Excavations at Moynagh Lough near Nobber were included.
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O Carolan Harp and Cultural Festival 1995 -
O Carolan Harp Festival 1992
The 1992 festival programme celebrated the Year of the Harp. It included the festival listings and events, the chairman Tony Finnegan's welcome address and an articel on Peadar O Gealacáin or Peter Gallegan the Meath scribe and poet who lived near nobber from 1792-1860.
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O Carolan Harp Festival 1992 -
O Carolan in Foundry
There was great anticipation among Festival organisers and committee members in 2003 when the unveiling of the O'Carolan monument was being planned. Here O'Carolan looks out of the foundry where final casting was done in preparation for the installation in Nobber village.
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The Dalway Harp
Made in A.D 1621, by Donal O'Dermody of Kilkenny, for Sir John Fitz Edmund Fitzgerald of Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland.
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The Dalway Harp -
The National Music of Ireland
The National Music of Ireland containing the History of the Irish Bards, the National Melodies, the Harp and Other Musical Instruments of Erin by Michael Conran was published in Dublin in 1846 by James Duffy. It is an early account of Carolan and his place in Irish music.
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The Story of the Harp
Te Story of the Harp by W.H. Grattan Flood was published in London in 1905. It traces the history of the harp from early Egyptian times to the end of the nineteenth century. It contains much history on the Irish harp and includes a chapter dedicated to Turlough O'Carolan.
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