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Trinity College harp

Trinity College Harp, Dublin, Ireland

The Trinity College harp, also known as "Brian Boru's harp", is a medieval musical instrument on display in the long room at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. It is an early Irish harp or wire-strung cláirseach. It is dated to the 14th or 15th century and, along with the Queen Mary Harp and the Lamont Harp, is the oldest[1] of three surviving medieval harps from the region.[2] The harp was used as a model for the coat of arms of Ireland and for the trade-mark of Guinness stout.

  1. ^ O'Brien, Máire; O'Brien, Conor Cruise (1999) [1972]. "A Conquest Absorbed". Ireland: A Concise History (3rd ed. (rev.) and reprinted ed.). New York, NY: Thames and Hudson. p. 52. ISBN 0-500-27379-0.
  2. ^ Joan Rimmer, "The Morphology of the Irish Harp", The Galpin Society Journal, vol. 17 (1964), pp. 39–49.

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