Report on the Harping Tradition in Ireland

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80 Harps on the Liffey – the launch of love: live music 2010. Photo by Maxwell Photography
4. RECOMMENDATIONS At the beginning of this report, the various issues that the harp community has previously raised, at the Harp Symposium in 2010 and at the Arts Council meeting in 2013, were listed. Key among them were the setting of a harp forum to facilitate more collaboration between harp organisations, the establishing of an Irish harp centre in Dublin, and of an International Irish Harp Day to raise the instrument’s profile. There was also a focus on introducing more supports for harp-making in Ireland, the need for core regular funding for harp organisations, for the setting up of a database of teachers, for more widely available high-quality tuition, and the importance was stressed of safe-guarding the early Irish harp repertoire. The research in this report corroborates many of these concerns, while at the same time presenting a more layered picture. When asked to list the main challenges in developing a career as a harpist, 264 respondents provided the following responses (Chart 53): Career Challenges Lack of opportunity (40) Cost of harps (39) Low profile / outdated image (38) 15.2% 14.8% 14.4% Lack of teachers (28) 10.6% Challenge of music as career (22) Funding (19) 7.2% 7.2% Travelling with harp (14) Marketing (11) No central org. / hub (10) Professional resources (9) Competition among harpers (7) Lack of opp. to play with others (7) Specific early harp challenges (6) 5.3% 4.2% 3.8% 3.4% 2.7% 2.7% 2.3% Other (25) No comment (27) 9.5% 10.2% Chart 53: (Sample: 264) 81
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VOICES OF IRISH HARPERS ‘I am pro
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Executive Summary 7 Introduction 11
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over several cent
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• the unsuitability of some Arts
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INTRODUCTION At the beginning of Ju
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As the reader will see from this re
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Kavan Donohue, Claire O’Donnell,
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Methodology The methodology for thi
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title Denis O’Hempsey - who parti
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Four days in Belfast By c. 1750 in
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Pioneering As Irish traditional mus
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Mary Bergin, Antoinette McKenna and
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Harps on the Liffey - the launch of
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Page 37 and 38: 3.7 Musical background The growth i
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Page 41 and 42: 3.8 Performance Traditional Irish m
Page 43 and 44: Chris Stout, Séamus Ó Beaglaoich
Page 45 and 46: Group playing Harpers perform as pa
Page 47 and 48: Enda Bates, Clíona Doris and Linda
Page 49 and 50: Number of Pieces Arranged for Harp
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Page 57 and 58: Map 2: Harp tuition detail: Norther
Page 59 and 60: Harp Tuition at Summer Schools and
Page 61 and 62: Ann Heymann (USA) teaching a class
Page 63 and 64: 3.13 Organisations The Irish harp s
Page 65 and 66: Historical Harp Society of Ireland
Page 67 and 68: The Irish Harp Centre Founded by Ja
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Page 71 and 72: Harpers also use a range of online
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Page 77 and 78: Fifty-five respondents had accessed
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Page 87 and 88: 4.6 Composition and Commissions Com
Page 89 and 90: Natalie Surina of Ériú Harps insp
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Page 93 and 94: 4.10 Harp-making A comprehensive da
Page 95 and 96: Aodán Ó Dubhghaill and Áine Ní
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