by Dr Johnston McMaster In August 2026 Belfast experienced Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann. The city had eight days of cultural and musical festival. Nothing like it had happened in Belfast before. The Belfast Harp Festival of July 11-14, 1792, a three-day cultural event that brought together ten elderly and blind harpers and one Welsh harper, giving new life to a dying harping tradition, was landmark. But eight days from 2-9 August 2026 was landmark and off the planet! Belfast h