Just came across this note from Tom Munnelly, quoted from an IR-Trad posting:
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but that remarkable walking archive of traditional song and the most generous man who ever existed when it came to passing on songs, Frank Harte, was found by his daughter Orla in his Chapelizod home this afternoon slumped at the computer. Apparently a heart attack. No details of funeral yet.
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Typical Frank, I suspect, - probably still sorting and learning songs to the end.

Regards