http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/ cl?irseach Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:20:57 GMT Michael Billinge http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1260 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1260 Over the past year or so I have been involved in the making of a documentary concerning Denis Hempson and his Downhill harp.  My role has been concerned with Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:35:18 GMT calumcille http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1259 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1259 Dear Keith & Simon, Marbhrann Mhic 'ic Ailein can be found on the album that Simon has which was recorded by Willie Matheson under the first line, "Och, a Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:53:57 GMT sanger_keith http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1258 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1258 Dear Simon A very open ended question. Prof Derick Thomson has over the years probably published more on the MacMhuirich poets than anyone else, but not as an Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:13 GMT simon@... http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1257 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1257 Keith, can you point us at some editions of this late Neil MacMhuirich's poems so we can see what kind of thing Neil Bain might have been accompanying? Who do Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:05:36 GMT sanger_keith http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1256 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1256 Dear Simon I am assuming that the worm damage came after the harp was played by John Robertson and before the new wood was inserted at the bottom of the Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:08:24 GMT simon@... http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1255 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1255 ... Keith, you're assuming that the worm damage came before the pillar break, which I don't think can be demonstrated either way. The worm damage could all be Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:17:34 GMT calumcille http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1254 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1254 Dear Keith, Thanks for the sumptuous information. I don't know how you manage to get order out of all that chaos. First of all, a correction. I should have Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:00:02 GMT sanger_keith http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1253 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1253 Dear Alasdair Well although it has absolutely no connection with harps, well at least the current question, that whole story you give was a classic case of Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:09:37 GMT sanger_keith http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1252 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1252 Dear Simon That the inscription is earlier than the reinforcing straps provides one more piece of evidence for the whole repair having been done by Muir Wood Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:04:50 GMT calumcille http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1251 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1251 Dear Simon, Thanks for that transcription! I'd often wondered about the 1650/1656 problem. Margaret, daughter of Alexander Robertson, 8th of Lude, divorced Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:35:06 GMT simon@... http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1250 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1250 I have made a drawing of the inscription on the Lamont harp: http://www.earlygaelicharp.info/harps/lamontinscription.htm Anyone care to opine on whether this Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:51:58 GMT Brendan Ring http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1249 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1249 Looking forward to catching up! Brendan Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:54:54 GMT calumcille http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1248 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1248 A chàirdean chòir, Meala-nàidheachd air na Heymanns a tha an diugh a' cuimhneachadh an 33mh ceann-bliadhna pòsaidh aca. Bidh iad cuideachd a' frithealadh Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:35:46 GMT tro_tant http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1247 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1247 Thanks for posting this, Keith. This is enormously helpful. I was looking for his papers. I may end up going over there to look up these papers sometime Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:09:39 GMT sanger_keith http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1246 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/clairseach/message/1246 It seems that the papers of Dr James MacDonnell are curently on deposit among the private papers collections in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland