Harps for Heritage - Sharing the Tunes

Experience Irish music and dance live and take part in a fun and family-friendly afternoon with Irish harpers and their friends. Join Cruit Éireann|Harp Ireland in the beautiful surroundings of Muckross Schoolhouse. Try your hand at playing the harp - no experience needed and all are welcome! Hear tips of the trade from harpmaker Tim O’Carroll and listen to harpers, pipers and whistle players as they share stories about their earliest musical memories - how they learned, how tunes are passed down from generation to generation and how musicians make them their own. The afternoon finishes with a concert from Ireland’s finest harpers and musicians, including Irish harpers Kathleen Loughnane, Catríona Cannon and Deirdre Granville with Cormac Cannon (uilleann pipes), Aoife Granville (flute), Seán Ryan (whistle) and Caitríona Finnegan (cello).

Programmme
12.30-1.30pm Hands on Harps – Have a Go!
1.45-2.30pm Crafting a Harp with Tim O’Carroll.
2.45-3.30pm Delving Deeply: Musicians chat about how they pass tunes from generation to generation
3.45pm Concert Harps for Heritage 2025: Sharing the Tunes

This project received funding through a joint initiative by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport and the National Monuments Service to support practices inscribed on Ireland’s National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Ireland’s National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage is managed by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport and can be viewed at https://nationalinventoryich.ccs.gov.ie/ . The National Monuments Service is delighted to support this initiative that highlights the strong relationship between tangible and intangible heritage.