Siobhán Armstrong

Siobhán Armstrong is a historical harpist, the founder and Chair of The Historical Harp Society of Ireland, and a PhD researcher in the area of early Irish harp performance practice at Middlesex University, London.

Exploring Irish Harp Traditions
The harp has been intimately bound up with notions of Irish identity for centuries, but how did this develop? Siobhán Armstrong reviews a new book that fills in some of the gaps in Ireland’s harp history.