PRESENTATION OM CELTIC IVY

Ciaran McNally began his career as a luthier at the tender age of 16, studying at the Lagan Lutherie School in Northern Ireland. Now 29, McNally spent the interim years working at two of the UK’s most august acoustic institutions: Lowden Guitars in Downpatrick, and Atkin Guitars in Canterbury. These days, McNally builds independently from his workshop in Craigavon, County Armagh. He’s made more than 300 complete instruments over the course of his career, and has had a hand in more than 1,000 builds, but our review guitar is only the 45th created under his own name.

Considering the number of mid-size guitars on the workbenches of luthiers around the