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Season’s Greetings

Uncategorised · 20th December 2018

Dear friends,

At this turning of the year, when the days are shortest and the nights longest, we wish you a peaceful and harmonious holiday.

2018 was a busy year for the HHSI with events around Ireland, north and south. We also revamped our website this year, with the help of Arts Council funding. A particular 2018 highlight was when we were informed that Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, has honoured our work by becoming our patron. To celebrate this, the President invited us to Áras an Uachtaráin in September to give presentations and performances  for Culture Night.

We are particularly grateful to An Chomhairle Ealaíon (The Arts Council) for their generous support to us in 2018 for various strands of our activities, and we thank our collaborators and everyone who has helped us in any way this year in our work to rediscover and to share the music and traditions of the early Irish harp.

We will share more news about our 2019 events in the New Year. For now, we will leave you with the following dates for your diaries in case they are of interest to you:

BELFAST
Early Irish Harp Discovery Day
The Queen’s University, Friday, 8 February.

[In association with Comhaltas Ceolteoirí Éireann’s ‘Remembering Bunting Festival‘]

KILKENNY
Scoil na gCláirseach—Festival of Early Irish Harp
Coláiste Pobail Osraí, 14–20 August.

Le gach uile dea-ghuí –
With every good wish –

Siobhán and the team at The Historical Harp Society of Ireland


Some photos from our 2018 events beneath.

See and read about our summer festival here.

Please visit our youtube channel in the New Year to see some of our 2018 concerts, workshops, talks and more.

HHSI student harps ready to go at Scoil na gCláirseach—Festival of Early Irish Harp 2018 in August. Photo: S. Armstrong

 

 

 

 

 

 

Galway Discovery Day event in March. Photo: S. Armstrong

 

 

 

Galway Discovery Day event in March. Photo: S. Armstrong

 

 

 

 

Belfast Discovery Day event in October. Photo: S. Armstrong

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simon Chadwick lecturing at Scoil na gCláirseach in August. Photo: S. Armstrong

 

 

Our 2018 Dublin Discovery Day took place on National Harp Day in October at the Irish Traditional Music Archive. Photo: S. Armstrong

 

A Hidden Ulster: Music of Oriel concert at Scoil na gCláirseach in August. Photo: P. Moore
Iconic Scottish piper & singer, Allan Macdonald, at Scoil na gCláirseach in August. Photo: S. Armstrong

 

 

 

At Áras an Uachtaráin, during spoken and recital events for President Higgins and the public on Culture Night in September. Photo: S. Chadwick
Participants playing for each other at Scoil na gCláirseach—Festival of Early Irish Harp in August. Photo: S. Armstrong

 

 

 

 

 

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