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Rory Dall

Rory Dall... the famous Scottish harper. Or wasn't he Irish? Actually there were two different people known as Rory Dall, one Scottish, one Irish. Their lives did not even overlap!

Ruaidhrí Dall Ó Catháin
(c. 1570 - 1650), also known as Rory O'Kane, or Rory Dall, was an Irish gentleman harper who spent most of his life in Scotland, especially in the Atholl area of Perthshire.

Ruaidhri Dall Mac Mhuirich
(c.1656 - c.1714), also known as Ruaidhri Mac Gille Mhoire, or Roderick Morison, or Rory Dall, was from Bragar, Lewis, Scotland. He spent much of his life as the retained harper to the McLeods at Dunvegan, Skye.