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Perhaps no figure in the history of Irish music is more beloved than the harper-composer Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). A plaque in St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin honors him as "the last of the Irish bards," the man who brought to a close the centuries-old tradition of the wandering poet minstrel
