LL-L "Music" 2005.05.26 (03) [E]

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From: Críostóir Ó Ciardha <paada_please at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Music" 2005.05.25 (05) [E]


Dave Singleton wrote:
"...don't forget the Celtic Harp and Turlough o'Carolan a famed player and
composer..."

Is the harp (Ir. _clársach_) quintessentially Celtic? I would dearly love it
to be so. But the tide of revisionist history says that there are no
quintessentially Irish innovated instruments (if the uileann pipes are
adaptions of continental or Northumbrian originals). Revisionism is in the
ascendancy in Ireland, and soon they will say we have no culture or
innovation whatsoever.

Toirbhealdhach Ó Cearalláin was an unsurpassingly fine harpist and composer,
almost the last of the bardic order. By his time Irish culture was very much
on the defensive - where it has remained ever since. Most of what is passed
off as Irish these days, particularly in the field of music and particularly
in North America, is not distinctively so.

Go raibh maith agat,

Criostóir.

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