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Belfast Harp Societies

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while only a sort of galvanised vitality. The selection of blind boys, without any greater regard for their musical capacities than the possession of the organ of hearing, for a calling which doomed them to a wandering life, depending for existence mainly if not wholly on the sympathies of the poorer classes, and necessarily conducive to intemperate habits, was not a well-considered benevolence, and should never have had any fair hope of success.
216: 67:, for the purpose of sustaining the music and tradition of itinerant Irish harpists, and secondarily, of promoting the study of the Irish language, history, and antiquities. For its patronage, the original society drew upon a diminishing circle of veterans of the patriotic and reform politics of the 1780s and 1790s, among them several unrepentant 71:. In its sectarian division, Belfast became increasingly hostile to Protestant interest in distinctive Irish culture. The society reconvened as the Irish Harp Society in 1819 only as a result of a large and belated subscription raised from expatriates in India. Once that source was exhausted, the new society ceased its activity. 40: 428:
We can confidently assure the friends and benevolent supporters of the patriotic and humane establishment, that the prosperity of the Institution has never for a moment been forgotten or unattended to. The contributors, by all accounts, have now the satisfaction of knowing, that they have effectually
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The effort of the people of the North to perpetuate the existence of the harp in Ireland by trying to give a harper's skill to a number of poor blind boys was at once a benevolent and a patriotic one; but it was a delusion. The harp at the time was virtually dead, and such effort could give it for a
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A core mission of the Belfast harp societies has been resumed, since 2002, by the Historical Harp Society of Ireland in Kilkenny. Rediscovering the older wire-stringed harp of the kind played by O'Neill and Rainey, the HHSI seeks return "to the world the true sound of the oldest Irish music". For
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McAdam was also to suggest that, "like all other fashions," "the taste and fashion of music ... must give way to novelty.” From 1809 Irish harps were purchased by many titled women in Ireland. But after the year 1835, the "'fad' went out". Charles Egan's workshop in Dublin, the main supplier, went
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In February 1810, O'Neill laid charges against his only female pupil, a Miss Reilly, of having "an improper connection" with another student. While she was cleared on investigation, the scandal was followed up by the dismissal of two of O'Neill's class as being "incapable by nature of learning the
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Arthur O'Neill retired to County Tyrone on a ÂŁ30 pension volunteered by James MacDonnell and his brother Alexander, both of whom had themselves been instructed on the harp by O'Neill in their youth. To the consternation of those who had come to regard the blind harper as a national treasure, the
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In 1818, it was reported that “several blind minstrels educated in the seminary at Belfast" were "wandering through different parts of the country", and, by "affording a pleasing and harmless amusement to the people who hear them", were able to support themselves.
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Society itself had made no provision for his final years. Accounts of the Society's financial difficulties and of O'Neill's plight ("the last Minstrel of Erin, unfriended, exigent, and bent in years") were submitted in June and November 1814 to the
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The new Irish Harp Society procured a small number of harps and again selected pupils, "without reference to religious distinctions", from among "the blind and the helpless". In 1823, the new master was Valentine Rainey (sometimes "Rennie") of
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preserving the national music and national instrument of Ireland by instructing a number of blind children in playing the Irish harp, and also procuring and disseminating information relative to the language, history and antiquities of
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out of business. Irish harp was ousted in both country houses, and popular meeting places, by the pianoforte and violin. Already, in 1792, the top premium in the festival had gone to Charles Fanning playing, "with modern variations",
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to challenge the nominees of Lord Donegall in a parliamentary election. Failing to commit himself on an issue that increasingly was to associate interest in Irish culture with Catholic-majority separatism, repeal of the
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harp". Subscribers began to withdraw their support. A season of six fund-raising balls held under the patronage of the Marchioness of Donegall failed to make up the loss. In 1813, the school closed.
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conceded that the Society's friends in Ireland, were not able "to contend" with the generosity with which its patrons in India responded to such reports. It noted that while the resident
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and subsequent removal of many landowning families to England, the gentry in Ireland were "too scarce, and too little national, to encourage itinerant harpers, as of old."
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Met "with most enthusiastic applause", their musical performances were celebrated as a triumph. From this highpoint, the affairs of the Society did not run smoothly.
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John McAdam, the Society's secretary (and fluent Irish speaker), noted there was not sufficient local interest to sustain its activity. In the wake of the
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restored the ancient melodies, the nearly lost airs of the Emerald Isle, by the encouragement given by them to the long–neglected and forgotten Harper.
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this purpose, the Society brings together artists and audiences, players and tutors, researchers and experts, and harp makers and organologists.
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or pledge had called for the "union of power among Irishmen of every religious persuasion"; Drennan's sister and political confidant,
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In December of that year, O'Neill was led by his twelve blind pupils into dinner marking publication of the second volume of Bunting
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had been organised, again, by members of the Belfast Society for Promoting Knowledge (known then as the Belfast Reading Society):
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Belfast politics: or, A collection of the debates, resolutions, and other proceedings of that town in the years 1792, and 1793
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15 April 1828, published a glowing tribute to the Society's academy, and of "the inimitable Rainey", that had appeared in the
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The Belfast Harp Society was the model for, and was briefly to survive, the Harp Society in Dublin. John Bernard Trotter from
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Other currents may also have been running against interest in the harp and its patriotic symbolism. Robert Tennent's son,
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Inaugurated at meeting held St. Patrick's Day, 1808, the Belfast Harp Society was an initiative of members of the
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Commemoration" in the city, but then faded along with Trotter's personal finances. He went bankrupt in 1812.
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notated the music of the ten performers. In 1808, he was appointed musical director of the new society, with
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acting informally as his secretary. Bunting's master tutor was the most celebrated of the 1792 performers,
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The difficulties of the Society were compounded by the arrest in August 1813 of its treasurer,
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Rainey, who "on liberal terms" had been invited to India (according to Bunting, by the "
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The Heritage of the Harp: the Linen Hall Library and the Preservation of Irish Music
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The Heritage of the Harp: the Linen Hall Library and the Preservation of Irish Music
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at Balmoral. Byrne had graduated from the Irish Harp School in Belfast in 1821.
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contributed to an additional subscription to support Cody's efforts. Cody used
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History of the City of Dublin, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time
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In July 1809, the Society extended its programme to include classes in the
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Heading the list of 191 people pledging for this purposes between one
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Arthur O’Neill (1734–1816), Belfast Harp Society master tutor
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celebrations. These had been complete with parades by local
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and the brothers Samuel and Andrew Bryson. Dr MacDonnell,
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in July 1792. This had been staged for the benefit of the
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Warburton, John; Whitelaw, James; Walsh, Robert (1818).
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and twenty guineas annually, was town's proprietor, the
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Society for Promoting Knowledge (the Linen Hall Library)
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A Hidden Ulster – people, songs and traditions of Oriel
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and was subsequently hanged; Robert Tennent's brother
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Belfast Harp Society (1808), Irish Harp Society (1819)
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The contemporary Historical Harp Society of Ireland
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Index

Belfast Harp Society

Belfast
Ireland
United Irishmen
Society for Promoting Knowledge (the Linen Hall Library)
James MacDonnell
Robert Tennent
guinea
Marquess of Donegall
Earl O'Neill
United Irishmen
Anglican establishment
Gilbert McIlveen
William Drennan
United Irish test
Martha McTier
Mary Ann McCracken
Henry Joy McCracken
1798
Earl O'Neill's father
battle at Antrim
William
Thomas McCabe
William Putnam McCabe
Robert Emmet
insurrection in 1803.
Belfast's first Harp Festival
Belfast Charitable Society
Bastille Day

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