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...sure, said one paper, there was a good harpist at the Royal Dublin Society's concert, but she was a Russian. Besides, said another, the traditional harp of the great Brian Boru had 30 strings, and this heraldic harp had only 15, for all that they were silver. And anyway, wasn't it the Sassenach heretic King Henry VIII who made the harp Ireland's official symbol in the first place when he decided that the three crowns of ancient Ireland looked too much like a Popish tiara...
...small state is on the losing side," said the spiritual descendant of the great warriors Cuchulainn and Brian Boru, "it can be utterly annihilated. If [it] is on the winning side, it has no means of [enforcing] the principles for which it fought...
...Catholic Eire, Easter time is a historical as well as a religious holiday. On Good Friday, 1014, King Brian Boru lost his life smashing the Vikings, who for two centuries had raided Ireland. On Easter Monday, 1916 (one day behind schedule) began the brief, bitter, bloody rising that was the first skirmish in the rebellion that led to the Irish Free State...
Boston Theatre.- Brian Boru...
Boston Theatre.- Brian Boru...