Entries Tagged as 'Bookmaking'

A postscript on “The Roots of Music: The Irish Harp in Poetry & Legend” [Collection by Malachi McCormick] Simon Chadwick’s Early Gaelic Harp Emporium in St. Andrew’s, Scotland.

Published on May 29th, 2009 by Malachi

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An early customer of mine for “The Roots of Music” was the harp-enthusiast and knowledgeable Simon Chadwick. He was then at Cambridge Univ. (or was it Oxford? I have to look it up.)
He had a newsletter dealing with the harp, and especially the Gaelic Harp, which is his specialization. [...]

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“The Roots of Music : The Irish Harp in Poetry & Legend” [Collection handmade by Malachi McCormick]

Published on May 29th, 2009 by Malachi

I put out this handmade collection about ten years ago. The Harp –and especially The Irish Harp– was being talked about a lot, and a lot of people were becoming interested in picking it up and learning to play it.
Many of those folks knew little about the Irish Harp, [...]

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“The Lament for Art O’Leary” Part 4 of my Introduction to the famous Irish poem by his wife, Eileen Dubh O’Connell

Published on April 19th, 2009 by Malachi

(1773) The Irish Wake.
I hope you all are enjoying my introduction to the fascinating story of “The Lament for Art O’Leary” –without doubt, one of the truly great Irish poems in the Irish language.
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We continue where we left off:
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“Abraham Morris was the High-Sheriff in the district. He [...]

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