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The Belfast Harp Festival, an early event in the Gaelic revival, began at the Assembly Rooms.
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1792 Irish musical event
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Gaelic revival
19th-century Irish language revival
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Assembly Rooms, Belfast
Building in Belfast, Northern Ireland
The Assembly Rooms is a Grade B1 listed building in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was built, as the single-storey Exchange, in 1769 by Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall. The Marquess expanded to a second floor in 1776 and the building came to be known by its current…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)