Going, going, Gonne: Maud’s harp sells for €37k

A harp given by WB Yeats to Maud Gonne as a gift has sold for €37,000 at auction.

The London-made instrument was used by her to accompany the poet reciting his work, and she later gave it to her friend Siobhán MacCurtain. The daughter of murdered Cork Lord Mayor Tomás MacCurtain, commander of the IRA’s Cork No 1 Brigade up to his death in March 1920, had a school for harpists in Cork.