Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1899 — The Harp of Brian Boru. [ARTICLE]

The Harp of Brian Boru.

What professes to be the original harp of Brian Boru is preserved in the library of Trinity College, Dublin; but its history, which is now more clearly traced does not bear out the popular tradition as to its origin. It belonged, probably, to the Illustrious sept of O’Neill, and was, in all likelihood, made for one of the two noted prelates of that name. It is a curious fact that it was last played on by one of that tardily, though at that time its real origin was not suspected; for the eminent Arthur O'Neill woke its slumbering music at Limerick in 1760, and it has ever since remained silent