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MAL ROGERS previews a BBC Programme about music collector Edward Bunting who played a crucial role in preserving parts of Ireland’s ancient harping tradition. NOW A bank, No. 2 Waring Street is Belfast’s earliest public building still surviving. In 1792 it was the venue for an event that was to have an enduring effect on
“Turn down this ‘shy thoroughfare’, which runs past the bank to St. Mary’s Chapel and in a moment, you gain the easy clarity of mind that comes from breathing an atmosphere loaded with the fragrance of the past.” (The Glamour of Belfast, H. A. Mac Cartan,1921.)