For many decades, Francis Hewson’s name has been mentioned in connection with Dublin harpmaking, mostly based on two or three surviving instruments in museum collections, and on one or two trade directory listings. This post is to try and fill out his life story.
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West Highland heraldry
For a very long time I have been interested in the symbolism of the animals on the forepillar of the Queen Mary harp. In their book Tree of Strings – Crann nan Teud, Keith Sanger and Alison Kinnaird discuss these animals, suggesting that they may have religious symbolism: “We have examined the possibility of the designs having some family or clan significance but they do not seem to have any apparent links”