About Cormack MacDermott
Cormac Mac Dermott (year of birth unknown – February 1618), Irish harper and composer, was one of the best-known Irish harpers at the Elizabethan court. Mac Dermott may have been a native of Moylurg, whose ruling family were the Mac Diarmata (Mac Dermott) clan. In 1605, he was appointed to the Royal Musick in London, the first harper since the death of Blind William More in 1565. He was succeeded on his death by his pupil Phillip Squire. Mac Dermott's