Siobhan (shuh-VAHN) Armstrong is one of today's top Irish harpers, and head of the Historical Harp Society of Ireland. She plays the ancient traditional wirestrung Irish harp that was popular from the ...

One person’s trash is another's treasure. Quite the understatement for Julie Finch, who found a rare and priceless 200-year-old Irish harp a few weeks ago in a dumpster on W. 26 St. in New York City.

David Kortier doesn’t claim Irish heritage. But he makes authentic early Irish harps, the kind played by Ann Heymann, an Irish harp music scholar and performer who lives in Winthrop, in southern ...

Kathy DeAngelo keeps the tradition of Irish music alive through the fiddle and harp. Kathy DeAngelo keeps the tradition of Irish music alive through the fiddle and harp. Each week, she and her husband ...

Long ago, the Tuatha de Danaan, supernatural beings, blond and blue-eyed and carrying heavy spears, came from the north to the land known as Ireland. When their king, Nuada, was injured in battle, a ...

Natalie Surina was drawn to the ancient harps of Ireland. She doesn’t know quite what it was that called her to it. But she knows it was undeniable. “I had already been studying ancient Irish culture ...

DID you know Ireland is the only country that has a musical instrument as its national symbol? From official documents to Guinness pint glasses and Ryanair planes, the harp is dotted throughout ...

“Thoughts of Ireland are always with me as I play,” said Moira Kelly as she moved her fingers across the strings of the harp that she has set up in her Georgetown driveway to play outdoors. “As I play ...

Six years ago, Declan Stapleton and business partner Ed Berry convinced Park Ridge’s elected officials to let them do something that would have probably been unthinkable just a few years earlier: ...