Turlough O'Carolan is the eighteen-year-old son of a blacksmith, born into turbulent times in seventeenth century Ireland. In 1688, at the age of eighteen, he falls in love and dreams of becoming a great harp player to impress his sweetheart.
On the summit of a sacred hill at midnight, a hill reputedly inhabited by the Good People, the Fair Folk of legend he expresses a heartfelt desire. As the old saying goes; be careful what you wish for, you'll most certainly get it.
Almost immediately he is struck down with a terrible sickness, smallpox. He experiences a beautiful yet disturbing vision in which he meets the Queen of the Good People. She grants him the gift of music however, there is a price to pay for it. When he awakes the sickness has cost him his eyesight.
Within two years of being blinded Turlough learns to play the harp and takes to the road as a travelling musician. In time he's be considered the greatest of all the Irish harpers. His music is still played all around the world today.
To the end of his days he always maintained that Otherworldly beings, known in Ireland as the Good People, granted him the gift of music and were responsible for at least some of his compositions. This is a story from a time when the veil between the worlds was thinner and belief in the mystical Good People, was still strong.
Based on a true story.
Genre: Fantasy
On the summit of a sacred hill at midnight, a hill reputedly inhabited by the Good People, the Fair Folk of legend he expresses a heartfelt desire. As the old saying goes; be careful what you wish for, you'll most certainly get it.
Almost immediately he is struck down with a terrible sickness, smallpox. He experiences a beautiful yet disturbing vision in which he meets the Queen of the Good People. She grants him the gift of music however, there is a price to pay for it. When he awakes the sickness has cost him his eyesight.
Within two years of being blinded Turlough learns to play the harp and takes to the road as a travelling musician. In time he's be considered the greatest of all the Irish harpers. His music is still played all around the world today.
To the end of his days he always maintained that Otherworldly beings, known in Ireland as the Good People, granted him the gift of music and were responsible for at least some of his compositions. This is a story from a time when the veil between the worlds was thinner and belief in the mystical Good People, was still strong.
Based on a true story.
Genre: Fantasy
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