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Stairway to Carolan – An Irishman’s Diary on the part a blind 18th-century harper played in the ultimate rock anthem

The musician Turlough Carolan, who died 280 years ago today, is sometimes said to have been a “rockstar” of his era.

This doesn’t mean he took drugs, bedded groupies, or trashed hotel rooms. But there is at least one respect in which he measures up well to latter-day rock gods. He may have written the intro to Stairway to Heaven.

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