> Someone has said that wire would have been a desired import if it existed in > Ireland in Elizabethan times, but that ignores the fact that in the times of > Good Queen Bess the old Ireland of the Celtic kinglets had disappeared. The > "Brian Boru" harp, that is sort of preserved, dates back almost 500 years > before the Queen of Shakespeares time. Pure "mythopoeia". I'm afraid "Brian Boru" harp is now dated to 1400's, and has nothing to do with Brian Boru. RT
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