Catherine Martin (piper)

{{Short description|18th-century Irish harpist}}

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Catherine "Kate" Martin ({{floruit|18th-century}}, born Lurgan, Co. Cavan) {{cite web|url=http://source.pipers.ie/documents/item.arc?mediaId=11094 |title=Ceol na hEireann |pages=23 |accessdate=7 August 2013 |publisher=Na Píobairí Uilleann }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} was an Irish harper. W. H. Grattan Flood described Catherine Martin as a native of Co. Meath. She especially performed airs by Edward Sterling, the parson of Lurgan. She attended the Harp Festivals at Granard in the 1780s and Belfast in 1792.

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