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Ireland's Harp - The Shaping of Irish Identity c.1770 to 1880 (Paperback)
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Ireland's Harp - The Shaping of Irish Identity c.1770 to 1880 (Paperback)
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The image of the harp - symbolic of the political and cultural
landscape of Ireland for centuries - evokes strong sentiments in
the collective Irish imagination. This iconic instrument became the
emblem on Irish coinage in the sixteenth century. Since then it has
been symbolic of Irish culture, music, and politics - finally
evolving into a significant marker of national identity in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The most important period in
this evolution was between 1770 and 1880. In these years, the
instrument became central to many utopian visions of an autonomous
Irish nation and the harp's metaphoric significance eclipsed its
musical one. Mary Louise O'Donnell uses these fascinating years of
major social, political, and cultural change as the focus of her
study on the Irish harp. From the revolutionary symbolism of the
harp to the cultural curiosities that were the blind Irish harpers,
the many permutations of Ireland's harp are thoroughly examined.
O'Donnell also discusses how the protection and patronage of the
Irish harpers passed from the aristocratic Gaelic order to the
Ascendancy and affluent middle classes in Dublin and
Belfast.Ireland's Harp brings to light the monumental importance of
this instrument by highlighting the central place the harp occupied
in the formation and expression of Ireland's cultural and national
identity.
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