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William Caer was 15 years of age while all of the others were over 45 years old. Three winners were selected (Fanning took first place) and each was awarded a yearly stipend of ÂŁ10. Edward
Bunting subsequently visited each winner, one after the other, to collate all of the available contemporary harp
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Granard, the express objective of the festival in Belfast was to assemble the remaining traditional harp players to compete for prizes, and preserve/notate the dying Irish harp tradition and its pieces. It was attended by ten Irish harpers and one Welsh harper, and many tunes were played. They
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In 1903, a week-long harpers' festival, originally intended by the members of the Linen Hall
Library for the centenary of the 1792 festival, was held in Belfast. Such large crowds attended that, after the first night, the concert was moved from the library's new premises to one of the city's larger
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Irishmen (under the banner of the harp without the crown) and the 1800 Acts of Union which abolished the Kingdom of Ireland with its parliament in Dublin. In 1808, those involved in organising the festival in 1792, including
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he played at the famous meeting of harpers at
Belfast, under the patronage of some amateurs of Irish music. Mr Bunton, the celebrated musician of that town, was here the year before, at Hampson's, noting his tunes and his manner of playing, which is in the best old style. He said, with the honest
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In July 1784, eight years before the assembly of harpers in
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music. He did not publish all this material until 1796, 1809, and 1840. Songs saved through this effort include:
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