Mary O'Hara

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Mary recorded this lovely song, A La Claire Fontaine, by the fireside at Rivendell, her home since 1980. The cottage was built in 1667 by people fleeing the Plague and the Great Fire of London. Recording had to be halted several times because of the twittering of birds coming down the chimney

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Mary O'Hara does not sing professionally or record any more. She retired from the concert platform in 1994.

Mary O'Hara does however still play the harp but only to assist her in writing down her harp accompaniments.

As I was walking
By the clear spring
I found the water so beautiful
That I decided to have a dip.
Chorus
I have loved you for a long time
I will never forget you.
Chorus

Beneath the leaves of the oak tree
While I was drying off
On the topmost branch
The nightingale was singing.
Chorus

Sing, nightingale, sing
You who have a happy heart
You have a heart for laughter
But mine is for sorrowing.
Chorus

I have lost my love
Without deserving to
Because of a bouquet of roses
Which I refused him.
Chorus

How I wish that the rose
Were still on the rose bush
And that my beloved Peter
Were still in love with me.
Chorus

She is currently publishing these in a series of music sheet books entitled Travels With My Harp.

Mary considers herself now retired but she still does talks and presentations. In March 2007 she gave 32 talks in Australia and, just recently, she gave talks at the 7th European Harp Symposium in Wales and at the Yeats International Summer School in Sligo, her home town in west of Ireland.

1955 sketch of Mary O'Haro by Tillio Nolan, brother of Myles na gCapaillín

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