The ‘Brian Boru’ harp
‘To music he was much addicted,’ Joseph C. Walker wrote of Brian Boru, in Historical memoirs of the Irish bards (1786). The ‘exquisite workmanship’ of Brian’s own harp was evidence of his fondness for music, Walker observed, but added a contradictory footnote: ‘The antiquity of this harp is certainly very high, but I cannot think … Read more