Amhlaeibh Mac Innaighneorach,

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, died 1168. Mac Innaighneorach is one of the earliest recorded Irish professional musicians. The

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call him the ''chief ollamh of Ireland in harp-playing'' but provide no other details of his life. The existence of his

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is thought to denote his profession's newly acquired respectability, as there are very few direct references to professional musicians in Ireland prior to his lifetime. Nevertheless, musicians would never hold the same esteem as

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Ann Buckley Ann Buckley is an Irish musicologist, born in Dublin. Buckley studied at University College Cork (B.Mus., 1971; M.A. 1972), Doctoraal (University of Amsterdam, 1976) and a Ph.D. (University of Cambridge, 1991). She has held academic positions ...

: "Musical Instruments in Ireland 9th–14th Centuries: A Review of the Organological Evidence", in: ''Musicology in Ireland'' (= ''Irish Musical Studies'' vol. 1), ed. G. Gillen & H. White (Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1990), pp. 13–57. *

: "Music and Musicians in Medieval Irish Society", in: ''Early Music'' 28 (2000) 2, pp. 165–190. *

: "Music in Prehistoric and Medieval Ireland", in: ''A New History of Ireland'' vol. 1, ed. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 744–813.

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* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005B/index.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Mac Innaighneorach, Amhlaeibh 1168 deaths 12th-century Irish people Medieval Irish musicians Irish harpists Medieval Gaels from Ireland Year of birth unknown

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