Show Ir elands ha harp P since time out of min d it has been the custom to associate the harp with irish music perhaps because the harp Is the emblem upon the flag of ireland or perhaps because the harp that once through taras halls its soul of music shed has echoed through the succeeding ages alf the imagination to vision of past glories at all events in spite of the fact that the origin of the harp antedates the earliest st records of civilization and that now the harp has become almost extinct in ireland it seems probable that the association will persist |