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High-Grade Larimar  Marcasite Sterling Silver Earrings and Necklace Note: Earrings, Necklace and Set are all sold separately. Thank you.

High-Grade Larimar Marcasite Sterling Silver Earrings and Necklace/Larimar Necklace/Infinity Silver Necklace

Silver Fountain Leixlip

Opalite Bracelet for healing, anxiety, stress relief, faithful love

Handmade Crystal Healing Stone Bracelets

Crystal Class by Jen

925 Silver hooks

Crystal Heart Earrings

Headband melody in rainbow colours with gentle sheen very soft and warm.

Headband melody in rainbow colours with gentle sheen very soft and warm

Soft pillow in the shape of a torso with pajamas
High quality cushion with perfect lie shape

Boyfriend Pillow

Synthetic Turquoise and glitterball beads

It’s the return of the rhyming charades game with the strange-sounding name!

White Howlite Earrings & Necklace

Create the perfect selfie or video with this selfie light ring. The 16cm light ring has 3 adjustable light settings (warm, soft or white light). It also includes a sturdy tripod and phone cradle.

Selfie Light Ring & Tripod

Chess For Three

Chess For Three

Headband in amazing colour brown with gentle sheen very soft and warm.

Headband in amazing colour brown with gentle sheen very soft and warm

100% Silk yarn headband in beautiful colours blue and pink. Very very very soft

100% Silk yarn headband in beautiful colours blue and pink very very very soft.

Personalised Childs Name Nursery Print – free delivery in Ireland
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Personalised Childs Nursery Initial Print

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"Shoot for the Moon" Set of 2 Nursery Prints – free delivery in Ireland.
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"Shoot for the Moon" - Set of 2 Nursery Prints - free delivery in Ireland

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Headband in amazing colour green with gentle sheen very very soft and warm.

Headband in amazing colour with gentle sheen very very soft and warm in a green colour.

28X20mm oval green Pietersite is set in an adjustable size Sterling Silver ring.

Green Pietersite Ring

Love you mum 008

Gift a little Boulder

Fun Art Portrait -A traditional Oil painting with the soul of a caricature, to best portray the full character of the Sitter.

Commission Oil painting- Fun Art Portrait

Fun Art & David Bog

Watch stand TLCwoodturning fd

Personalised Watch stand

Blue Copper Turquoise Bezel Set Sterling Silver Necklace Metal: Sterling Silver Gem: Blue Copper Turquoise Stone size: 29mm x 12.5mm Birthstone: December Turquoise represents the wisdom that comes from all of life’s experiences. It reminds us that wholeness can only come when we are willing to embrace the totality of who we are and what we have learned.

Blue Copper Turquoise Sterling Silver Necklace

Silver Fountain Leixlip

A beautiful handmade Stained Glass feather.

Handmade Stained Glass Feather

Three Rock Glass Art - Handcrafted Irish Stained Glass — Original Tiffany Technique Pieces by Paula, Glass Artist

Faceted Sapphire and Marcasite sterling silver necklace Gift boxed

Timeless Sapphire Marcasite Sterling Silver Necklace

Silver Fountain Leixlip

Set of 2 bunny/rainbow Nursery prints – FREE SHIPPING.
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Set of 2 Bunny/Rainbow Nursery Prints

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Turlough O’Carolan, that well known Irish Harper-Composer, was born in the year 1670 near Nobber, County Meath, where his father was a blacksmith.
In 1684, when he was 14 years of age, his family moved to Ballyfarnon, County Roscommon, where John Carolan – Turlough’s father – was employed by the McDermott-Roe family who lived at Alderford, Ballyfarnon.
Mrs. McDermott-Roe took an interest in him and had him educated. When Turlough was 18 years of age he contracted small pox, a disease which was usually fatal at the time. His life was spared but he was left permanently blind. Turlough’s blindness, in a way, was a blessing because it awakened in him a hidden gift for music.
It was then that his patron, Ms Mary McDermott-Roe, saw to it that he was trained in the Irish Harp. She had him apprenticed to a harper who was a relation of hers. She maintained him during his three years of study and when he reached 21 years of age provided him with a harp, a horse, a guide and sufficient money to begin his professional career. He started on his way as an Itinerant Harper.
At first he was not considered to be a great musician, mainly because he was an adult when he started studying, and when it was suggested to him that he try his hand at composing he did so and composed Sheemore and Sheebeg.
It was then his fame spread throughout Ireland and his career took off. The way Turlough made a living was to travel from big house to big house and from castle to castle, entertaining the households and the friends of some of the most famous and wealthy people in Ireland at the time.
Often as a special favour he would write a tune in honour of the man of the house or his wife or daughter. He called these tunes “Planxties”. He was very successful and people would delay weddings and funerals until he could be present to play the appropriate tune.
In 1720 , Turlough Carolan married Mary Maguire. He was then 50 years of age. Their first family home was a cottage on a parcel of land near Mohill, Co Leitrim, where they settled. They had seven children, six daughters and a son. In 1733 his wife Mary died.
Turlough Carolan was one of the last Irish Harpers who composed and a significant number of his works survive in single line melody. He started playing the harp when he was 18 years of age and became very skillful at it, but his .fame developed from his gift for composition and verse. When
Turlough Carolan was a very young man, before his blindness, he met and fell in love with a young woman named Bridget Cruise. Bridget was part of a noble family and Turlough’s family was of skilled labourers, so a match could never be made.
And even though he went on to live a very successful life, he never forgot Bridget and wrote three “Planxties” in her honour. He met her again near the end of his life when he was on his way to a Religious Retreat in County Donegal.
In the year 1738, feeling ill, he returned to the home of his patron, Ms Mary McDermott-Roe. It is said that his ‘final composition was to her Butler who brought him his last drink. He died on the 25th March, 1738, aged 68 years.
He was buried with much ceremony in the cemetery at Kilronan. A plaque in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, honours him as “The last of the Irish Bards”, the man who brought to a close the centuries-old tradition of the Wandering Poet/Minstrel. Carolan’s wake is said to have lasted for four days. Harpers from over a wide area attended the wake and played their harps continuously. His funeral was also impressive with a large number of Priests taking part in the ceremony.

Turlough O'Carolan

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