Bibiel Hears Things: Kim Robertson – “Cape Clear”

Hey people! Today I’d like to feature a traditional Irish piece. It’s a slow air, played by a harpist whose music I’ve already featured once before, specifically a really lovely piece called “Dance of the Lambs”. Kim Robertson is originally from Wisconsin, and a pioneer of the American folk harp movement. She was classically trained on piano and orchestral harp, but has done a great deal to popularise the Celtic harp in the US. The “Cape Clear” air takes its name from an Irish island (Oileán Chléire in Irish) – the southernmost inhabited island of the country, on the south-west coast of County Cork, and a Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking) area. It is a place of great cultural and historic value, as it contains a lot of archaeological sites, including megalithic standing stones around the island, but a whole lot of other things as well. It is also famous for its early Christian sites, and in particular is claimed to be the birthplace of St. Ciarán of Saigir, or Kieran in English, who is…