Anyone ever hear of an Irish harpist named Deirdre O'Callaghan? The name is completely new to me.

I have just come across a photograph of Ms. O'Callaghan from 2013, at a public screening of The Quiet Man (the film had been given some technical treatment -- "digitally remastered," whatever that means. Screening in Dublin.

Ms. O'Callaghan is a harpist, well-known in Ireland at least. She was married to Noel Carroll who died unexpectedly. The two raised four children. She then married Pat Heneghan who is in the "Quiet Man" screening photograph with her. She has lovely silver-gray hair and appears to be the age that Deirdre Flynn / Ní Fhloinn would be today.

Ms. O'Callaghan is said to have been a classmate of Mary O'Hara and Kathleen Watkins. After working at RTE (before marriage), and raising her family, she went to University College, Dublin, and in finishing her degree, she wrote her thesis on....wait for it....Thomas Moore.

Okay, maybe the two Deirdres are NOT the same person, however it sounds as though they know the same people and are the same age....!