of Ruairi Dall Ó Catháin is his music”. Sanger, having revisited the sources for the music (the "Straloch manuscript" of about 1627–1629) states that this has gone missing in 1845. He concludes "But overall the evidence, or rather the lack of any, for a Rorie Dall Ó Cathain does not provide much of a base on which to build his character." Bibliography Edward Bunting: The Ancient Music of Ireland (Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1840; reprinted Dublin: Walton's, 1969) Robert Bruce Armstrong: The Irish and the Highland Harps (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904). Charlotte Milligan Fox: Annals of the Irish Harpers (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1911). Colm Ó Baoill: "Some Irish Harpers in Scotland", in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, vol. 47 (1971–72), pp. 143–171. C. Ó Baoill: "Two Irish Harpers in Scotland", in Defining Strains. The Musical Life of Scots in the Seventeenth Century, edited by Michael Porter (Bern etc.: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 227–244. Keith Sanger: "Mapping the Clarsach in Scotland", published 31 May 2017 on wirestrungharp.com References 16th-century Irish musicians 17th-century Irish musicians Blind musicians Composers for harp Irish composers Irish harpists Irish-language singers Year of birth uncertain