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Thread #159372   Message #4101615
Posted By: keberoxu
09-Apr-21 - 08:17 PM
Thread Name: 'All the dear Spinning Eileens' (Irish harpists)
Subject: RE: 'All the dear Spinning Eileens' (Irish harpists)
. . . well, at the end of 2018, at any rate,
Sheila Larchet Cuthbert was still alive --
at that point, 95 years young.
There is a photograph of her with her sister Maire
who has since died;
Ms. Larchet Cuthbert is bent over nearly double,
and holds a walking stick in one hand;
but she has a full head of white hair
and stands as straight as her old body will allow.

The occasion was a public performance of songs composed by
her father, John Larchet.