Guinness 1886–1939: From Incorporation to the Second World War. (Stanley Raymond) Oliver McDonagh (1998). MS 111G Folio number: 20 grant dated 9 November 1945. ^ The National Library of Ireland, volume: G.O.^ Flood, William Henry Grattan (1970).^ Joan Rimmer, The Irish Harp (Cork: Mercier Press, 1969 3rd edition, 1984), p.The Ancient Music of Ireland: Arranged for Piano. "Memoir of Ancient Irish Harp preserved in Trinity College". ^ Joan Rimmer, "The Morphology of the Irish Harp", The Galpin Society Journal, vol.^ O'Brien, Máire O'Brien, Conor Cruise (1999).Visitors are therefore often surprised at how wide the real harp is, compared to the harp on Irish coins. The earlier heraldic and trade mark designs that were modelled on it were based on a thinner form that was the result of a bad restoration in the 1830s. In 1961, the harp was exhibited in London, where it was dismantled, reconstructed by the British Museum into the wider shape it has nowadays, being the playable medieval form, and restrung under the supervision of the British musicologist Joan Rimmer. One extra bass pin was added at some point in its playing life. The harp is of a small low-headed design with brass pins for 29 strings, the longest being c.62 cm. The two other surviving Gaelic harps from this period (the Lamont Harp and the Queen Mary Harp) are considered to have been made in Argyll in South West Scotland sometime in the 14th–15th century. Other Irish businesses have used a similar harp as a logo or trade mark, including Ryanair. A right-facing image was registered as a trade mark for Guinness in 1876, although it was first used on their labels from 1862. A left-facing image of this instrument was used as the national symbol of Ireland from 1922, and was specifically granted to the State by the Chief Herald of Ireland in 1945. The Trinity College harp is the national symbol of Ireland, being depicted on national heraldry, Euro coins and Irish currency. The harp bears the coat of arms of the O'Neills but although there are many theories about its ownership through the centuries, none can be substantiated, with no verifiable evidence remaining to indicate the harp's original owner, or subsequent owners over the next two to three hundred years until it reputedly passed to Henry McMahon of County Clare, and finally to William Conyngham, who presented it to Trinity College in 1782. Petrie dates its construction "to the fourteenth, or more probably to the early part of the fifteenth century." Joan Rimmer (1969) dated it to "probably from the fourteenth century". However, this link was dismissed by George Petrie in 1840 as "a clumsy forgery, which will not bear for a moment the test of critical antiquarian examination".
According to Charles Vallancey writing in 1786, it was reputedly once owned by Brian Boru, High King of Ireland.
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