Robert Harvey
speaker
80 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
Robert Harvey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
A Bright Fresh Morning.
Absolutely, yeah, it was such an important and integral part of normal life, I suppose.
You can pull back a little bit from the mic there.
Yeah, it was such an important part of everyday life.
People used to whistle while they were working around the farm.
There were specific plough tunes, there were whistling tunes for milking and tunes that shepherds would whistle out in the fields.
It was just an important part of everyday life.
Absolutely, yeah.
Or the cows might yield more milk as well.
So maybe listeners listening in this morning might like to give that a go.
Yeah, there's a little bit of a superstition around that era, all right.
Go on.
Yeah, so allegedly there was a priest walking the roads, he was going the roads and trying to, or on his way to administer last rites to a parishioner and...
He heard a fairy whistling this melody and got distracted and didn't make it in time to administer last rites.
So there's a superstition or a belief that it's kind of bad luck to whistle the tune.
Mason's Apron.
Yes, building.
There was very much a fear that traditional music was on the verge of extinction, that it was about to die out.
So a group of people from the Dublin Pipers Club and members of the Fesh Lorna Heron met in Mullingar in 1951 and they decided to form an organisation to try and promote and preserve Irish traditional music.
And that organisation was Coltis Cil Tori Éireann.
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