Artist Support and Mentoring
We inspire, support and mentor the next generation of performers, in Ireland and
internationally, providing them with expert information and resources, and also with
performance opportunities.
Contact us for more info.
Acadamh na gCláirseach—Academy of Early Irish Harp
Online Zoom courses (sessions on six consecutive Saturdays) with expert presenters, on a
diverse range of topics. Levels: post-beginner to professional.
Visit the Academy
Scoil na gCláirseach—Festival of Early Irish Harp
Ireland’s annual international festival for the instrument with concerts, talks, interactive
workshops and players’ sessions, and walk-in Beginners’ Taster events.
Festival website
Scientific Research
We support harp builders by carrying out cutting-edge scientific research on historic Irish
harps. We offer a free, downloadable database of information from our pilot project on an
18th-century Irish harp.
Report: The Hollybrook Project
Tuition
We can help you find an in-person or online tutor in Ireland or elsewhere.Currently we have
networked tutors and players in Ireland, Italy, Great Britain, the USA, Canada, Brazil, and
Japan.
Contact us for more info.
Early Irish Harp Discovery Days
We collaborate with organisations and festivals around Ireland to offer early-Irish-harp
Discovery Days with a concert, talk and hands-on beginners’ workshop.
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Rental Harp Collection
We offer players working with HHSI tutors low-cost access to the first ever rental collection of
early Irish harps, based on medieval to 18th-century originals in museum and private
collections.
Learn more
Online Resources & Repertory
We aim to connect to as much useful and relevant information as possible, and to provide
our own outline of what historical repertory one can play on an early Irish harp.
Useful links
Youtube Channel
Watch 80+ videos of concert performances, talks and workshops filmed at our events over
the years, made available as a free public resource.
HHSI Youtube channel
Library
500+ items in the first members’ library of copies of 17th- to 21st-century MS and printed
materials, sound recordings and ephemera related to early Irish harp, Gaelic history and
culture, and parallel European source material.
Browse our online catalogue
Antique Harp Collection
We are assembling a collection of antique and replica harps. If you are planning to donate
an 18th-, 19th- or early 20th-century harp, please consider us as a possible recipient.
Learn more
Timbers for Harp Construction
We have begun a collaboration with a bio-engineering company to make appropriately sized pieces
of willow available to harp builders, suitable to produce medieval- to 18th-century harps.
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