Ireland’s ‘Independence Day’ is the 21st of January. Please make this your profile picture in the lead up to that date and give people an opportunity to read the very important description below.
The Harp 
When the Harp was more commonly heard on this land, it is said that seals, in pursuit of fishermen’s nets, would turn their heads to the land upon hearing the beautiful melodies on shore. The harp has been a feature of culture, heritage and pride for people on this island for thousands of years. Ireland is unique in that it is the only country in the world with a musical instrument as the national emblem. But the harp is not just a musical instrument, it has been described as “the lost symbol”, within which is contained all the knowledge for ancient man to build his civilisation.
(Harp faces right / Sovereign Seal faces left)
Found within the design of the harp are mathematics, physics, science, measurement and key technologies for ancient man. The instrument was held in such magical regard across the world for these very reasons. Quite a difficult thing to think of now with all our satellites, computers and other inventions of modernity. Ancient man could literally teach their children how to read, write, count, build, navigate, map and measure using the harp as a blueprint. It held all the knowledge for man to pass on to the next generation. We see in many of the invasions of Ireland, an attempt to wipe out the harp and the people who understood it. What was so powerful and threatening about the harpists that made them the immediate targets of multiple invasions? It wasn’t some magical power or esoteric effect, it could hardly be used as a weapon. It was simple knowledge which gave man the freedom to build his own house, cultivate his crops, measure the seasons, travel the land and the seas. The Harp represented mans freedom to be sovereign over his own destiny; over his own understanding and measurement of the world he lived in. Invaders who wanted people illiterate, ignorant and dependent on their chief, their King or their Pope made straight for the Harp and those who understood it.

The top of the Harp is the blueprint for the curragh and it represents the sun as it travels across the sky. The strings in this sense, can be seen as the rays of the sun, bringing light to the world and energy to crops. On the sound box we see a diagram for the prism and the lens. It is a representation of the telescope and a tool for measuring the sun (turn the harp upside down, it is a sundial). One could think of Newgrange and the lesser known Oldgrange at lough Gur. The impeccable accuracy of the construction at Newgrange is for many, still a mystery. Perhaps the Harp contained some blueprint?
The ancient Irish had a love for their law, the fenachas, and upon the hook on the bottom of the Harp hung the scales of justice. From here, would also hang the pendulum, the plum line and the string for constructing a circle. The circle here, would construct the compass. By understanding the Sun Ship and the location of the sun, one would know where one was headed. The front of the Harp, four together, would construct the wheel; the strings becoming spokes. It was also the foundation of ship building, the keel. The strings on the Harp can be used as an abacus, allowing man to count. The Ogham alphabet, the earliest language found on Ireland, can be written on a single line (harp string). Music is written on multiple parallel lines (sets of strings). The strings also represent longitude and latitude, man maps his world, and if you can imagine one set of strings moving vertically over the other, you would see the celtic designs so common in ancient art and writing.