• The Harp in the South is the debut novel by New Zealand-born Australian author Ruth Park. Published in 1948, it portrays the life of a Catholic Irish Australian...
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    The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers...
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    The Jew's harp, also known as jaw harp, juice harp, or mouth harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed...
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    that originated in New England and was later perpetuated and carried on in the American South. The name is derived from The Sacred Harp, a ubiquitous and...
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  • The Harp in the South is a 1949 Australian stage play by Ruth Park and Leslie Rees based on the novel of the same name by Park. A number of changes were...
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  • The Harp in the South is a 1964 British television film. It was based on a novel of the same name by Ruth Park. It was directed by an Australian, Alan...
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    The Celtic harp is a triangular frame harp traditional to the Celtic nations of northwest Europe. It is known as cláirseach in Irish, clàrsach in Scottish...
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  • Kate Mulvany (category Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia)
    Prize for Playwriting in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. In 2018, Mulvany adapted Ruth Park's The Harp in the South trilogy as a two-part...
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  • The Harp in the South is a 1951 Australia radio serial adapted by Tony Scott Veitch from the novel of the same name by Ruth Park. It featured many leading...
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    Ruth Park (category Members of the Order of Australia)
    best known works are the novels The Harp in the South (1948) and Playing Beatie Bow (1980), and the children's radio serial The Muddle-Headed Wombat (1951–1970)...
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    The Trinity College harp, also known as "Brian Boru's harp", is a medieval musical instrument on display in the long room at Trinity College Dublin in...
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    Gwen Plumb (category Members of the Order of Australia)
    character’s name in 1980. Other notable roles were in the mini-series The Harp in the South and Poor Man's Orange in the mid-1980s. She acted in Neighbours...
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    The harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), also known as Saddleback Seal or Greenland Seal, is a species of earless seal, or true seal, native to the northernmost...
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    harps is a category in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system for musical instruments, a type of harp. The instrument may also be called bow harp...
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  • Kip Williams (category Official website not in Wikidata)
    production of The Harp in the South for Sydney Theatre Company. He won the 2021 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Director for his production of The Picture of...
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    Aeolian harp (also wind harp) is a musical instrument that is played by the wind. Named after Aeolus, the ancient Greek god of the wind, the traditional...
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  • Carole Skinner (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
    as Nola McKenzie in the soap opera, Prisoner, and Sons and Daughters, as Doris Hudson, as well as miniseries, The Harp in the South, and its sequel, Poor...
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    The Queen Mary Harp (Scottish Gaelic: Clàrsach na Banrìgh Màiri) or Lude Harp, is a Scottish clarsach currently displayed in the National Museum of Scotland...
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  • Channel Seven series Fire, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation drama Heartland, the miniseries The Harp in the South and Poor Man's Orange and Halifax...
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  • The Harp Consort is an international early music ensemble directed by Andrew Lawrence-King, specialising in Baroque opera, early dance-music, and historical...
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  • Brandon Burke (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
    High and the lead role of Dr. Chris Gilchrist in the 1994 TV series Wedlocked He appeared in TV mini series adaptations The Harp in the South and its sequel...
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    houses the local branch of the city library and the Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre. The Harp in the South is a novel by Ruth Park. Published in 1948,...
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    from the classical angular harp, introduced during the Spanish colonization in the Jesuit Guarani Missions. It is a diatonic harp with 32, 36, 38 or 40, 42...
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    The coat of arms of Ireland is blazoned as Azure a harp Or, stringed Argent (a gold harp with silver strings on a blue background). These arms have long...
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    Joseph Harper PC CC AOE (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. He was the first...
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  • Poor Man's Orange (category Surry Hills, New South Wales)
    Park. Published in 1949, the book is the sequel to The Harp in the South (1948) and continues the story of the Darcy family, living in the Surry Hills area...
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    Anna Hruby (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
    Country Practice, All Saints, Cop Shop and mini-series such as The Harp in the South and Poor Man's Orange. She was a regular cast member on Home and...
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    Richardson (The Fortunes of Richard Mahony), Joseph Furphy (Such Is Life), Rolf Boldrewood (Robbery Under Arms) and Ruth Park (The Harp in the South). In terms...
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    (1974) The Night the Prowler (1978) The Killing of Angel Street (1981) Bliss (1985) The Harp in the South (1986) Poor Man's Orange (1987) The Heroes (1989)...
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    In the name of apartheid: South Africa in the postwar period. 1st US ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Meredith, Martin. The State of Africa. The Free...
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