Frank Harte (Born 14 May 1933; died 27 June 2005) was born and lived in Chapelizod, a small village on the banks of the river Liffey, Dublin, Ireland. He worked as an architect professionally, but is honoured now as one of the greatest balladeers and song collectors in the Irish musical tradition. His introduction to Irish singing came, he said, from a chance listening to an itinerant who was selling ballad sheets at a fair in Boyle, County Roscommon. Wikipedia
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