Briggs Harp
Mary O’Hara’s Briggs Harp
Harp made by Henry Briggs of Glasgow, Scotland for Mary O’Hara, circa 1953. Mary O’Hara papers, IM.M175.2009
Mary O’Hara
Mary O’Hara and her Briggs harp on Irish Digest, February, 1955. Box 38, folder 14, Mary O’Hara papers, IM.M175.2009
“My [Briggs] harp … has travelled with me all over the world from Yukon and Labrador City to the far reaches of New Zealand and Africa and much in between. I have played it in all the major concert halls of the English-speaking world and it has never let me down.” – Mary O’Hara, Irish singer and harpist