(Paul Faith/AFP/AFP) "It's never too late to start a new hobby," says 89-year-old Irish harp-maker Noel Anderson, one of only a few making the intricate instrument, a national symbol of Ireland. A ...

The lush, pulse-reducing sounds of the Irish harp – how rock and roll is that? Not really, when you think about it. For Cormac De Barra, that’s what makes life so exciting. De Barra is renowned ...

David Kortier doesn’t claim Irish heritage. But he makes authentic early Irish harps, the kind played by Ann Heymann, an Irish harp music scholar and performer who lives in Winthrop, in southern ...

THERE is an incredible number of people playing the harp these days, thanks in no small part to Máire Ní Chathasaigh, a harper who took the instrument 'back to the future', bringing it back to its ...

Milwaukee's Irish Cultural and Heritage Center is hosting internationally acclaimed harpist Kim Robertson for its Holiday Harp concert. The Wisconsin native is joined on stage by a number of local ...

“The Story of the Irish Harp: Its History and Influence” by Nora Joan Clark The harp has always had a mystical reputation, which I guess is why popular culture envisions angels playing harps rather ...

We’ve had a complex relationship with the harp, our national symbol, but over the past two decades it has enjoyed a steady growth in popularity to the point where now there are more than 2,000 harpers ...