David Kortier doesn’t claim Irish heritage. But he makes authentic early Irish harps, the kind played by Ann Heymann, an Irish harp music scholar and performer who lives in Winthrop, in southern ...

"It's never too late to start a new hobby," says 89-year-old Irish harp-maker Noel Anderson, one of only a few making the intricate instrument, a national symbol of Ireland. A retired wood and ...

Nestled above the musical village of Naul, Sean Smyth pours his time, his talent and his soul into each and every Irish harp he makes. Smyth selects and sources wood for these Irish harps from around ...

A retired wood and metalwork teacher Anderson only took up the niche craft seven years ago, making his first harp aged 82. "It doesn't matter what age I am really, I just pop out to the shed and work ...