Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Turlough Carolan NPG D1214

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Unknown artist

Born in 1670 near Nobber, County Meath in Ireland, Carolan's family moved in 1684 to Ballyfarnon where his father took a job with the MacDermotteRoe family. Mrs MacDermottRoe gave him an education. Carolan was blinded by smallpox at the age of eighteen and was apprenticed to a good harper. From the age of twenty-one Carolan travelled all across Ireland with his horse and guide composing songs for patrons and performing his tunes. He married Mary Maguire in 1720 and had seven children. Carolan's Concerto has... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.