I regard the badge you show as genuine, they are found with both voided and unvoided strings, there is always a void between the harp and crown. My belief is they are of WW1 manufacture.
A Royal Irish Regiment badge with similarly solid strings in shown in Wilkinson’s (1st edition i.e. 1969) book. Many of the line infantry and cavalry in his book appear to be drawn from a circa WW1 collection plus the quality, or rather lack of, also ties in with this era.
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