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The Celtic harp is a triangular frame harp traditional to the Celtic nations of northwest Europe. It is known as cláirseach in Irish, clàrsach in Scottish Gaelic, telenn in Breton and telyn in Welsh. In Ireland and Scotland, it was a wire -strung instrument requiring great skill and long practice to play, and was associated with the Gaelic ...
[3] [4] The harp, traditionally associated with the biblical King David, was a rare charge on medieval rolls and only two arms with a harp are listed in a collection of 19 early rolls. [5] Triangular devices appeared on medieval Irish coinage by kings John and Edward I in the 12th and 13th centuries.
The Trinity College harp, also known as " Brian Boru's harp ", is a medieval musical instrument on display in the long room at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. It is an early Irish harp or wire-strung cláirseach. It is dated to the 14th or 15th century and, along with the Queen Mary Harp and the Lamont Harp, is the oldest [1] of three ...
The Nigg stone 790–799 AD carving of a Pictish harp in a 19th-century illustration, minus the top section The harper on the Dupplin Cross, Scotland, circa 800 AD The harper on the Monifeith 4 Pictish sculpture, Scotland, 700–900 AD The earliest depiction of an Irish harp, c.1000—1100 AD. Depicted on the side of the reliquary shrine of St ...
The Dalway harp, Cloyne harp, or Fitzgerald harp is an early modern Irish harp whose extant fragments are in the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History. [1] It was made in 1621 by Donnchadh fitz Teig (Donatus Filius Thadei) for Sir John MacEdmond Fitzgerald of Cloyne in County Cork [2] (grandson of John Fitzedmund Fitzgerald ...
Lyra Davidica. The Lyra Davidica ("the harp of David "; expanded title: Lyra Davidica, or a Collection of Divine Songs and Hymns, Partly New [ly] Composed, Partly Translated from the High-German and Latin Hymns) [ 1] is a collection of hymns and tunes first published in 1708. [ 2] The volume was published by John Walsh (printer).
NMI 1887:145. The Shrine of St Patrick's Tooth (Irish: Fiacail Phádraig, translated as Patrick's Tooth) [2] is a medieval reliquary traditionally believed to contain a tooth belonging to Patrick, Ireland's patron saint, who lived in the 5th century. The shrine comprises a wooden case lined with bronze and decorated with gold, silver and amber ...
Úaithne is glossed as "Orpheus" in the Irish Glossaries. [1] The word has multiple meanings beside Dagda's harp. [1] Úaithne can also mean "concord in music" [25] and Philippe Jouët endorses the interpretation that Dagda's harp indeed means "concordance" or "harmoniousness", which would be consistent with interpreting the byname Cóir ...