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Welcome to Mary O'Hara's "Travels with my Harp" website
This official Mary O'Hara website accompanies maryohara.co.uk
Explore and discover a selection of Mary's travels with her harp, a constant companion during her international singing and harp-playing career
Mary O'Hara travelled the world entertaining audiences with her concerts, TV and radio shows and recordings. She performed in concert at all the major concert venues around the world, recorded twenty albums and wrote three bestsellling books. Her UK TV series for the BBC included 'The Starlight Series' in 1956 and 'Minstrel of the Dawn' in 1985. Her two TV series for ITV entitled 'Mary O'Hara and Friends' were broadcast in 1984 and 1985 in the UK. She also had her own TV specials and guested on all the major TV shows of the day
Mary retired from performing and recording in 1994 and in 1996 moved to Kenya (and then Tanzania) with her husband for six years of African adventure
Since returning home to England in 2002 she has found herself in demand this time as a speaker, with requests to give her 'Travels With My Harp' talk and multi-media presentations in Ireland, England, Wales, Australia, USA and Canada. During this period she also published her harp accompaniments in five volumes and in May 2012 her new autobiography was published, her fourth book
Mary and her husband Padraig later lived on the Aran Islands, off the west coast of Ireland. Padraig sadly died in 2015
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Mary O'Hara photographed in 2009 after one of her 'Travels With My Harp' presentations
Above: Mary performing 'Lord of the Dance' in 1978. This was the song that had moved her to sing again after 12 years of monastic silence