Lilting Banshee
Also known as
Ballinasloe FairThe Banshee's LamentBobby Casey'sThe Butcher's MarchFallon'sThe Glanmire MillerJohn Conroy'sThe Killaloe BoatLeave It Down EasyThe Miller Of GlanmireMoyasta JunctionThe MoyastaPaddy In LondonRita Keane'sRyan'sRyan's FavouriteThe SligoThe Wail Of The BansheeThe Wailing BansheeWalsh's
Key
A Dorian
Type
Jig
Level
BIA
Instrument
Irish Flute
About this tune
Francis O'Neill printed this double jig in his Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907) under the title "The Miller of Glanmire," for a village a few miles from Cork city, and had it from George West — a gifted seventeen-year-old fiddler too poor to own an instrument, who kept company with a fiddler named O'Malley, himself missing a finger on his left hand and scraping a living playing house parties. The jig has gathered a long string of names since, but it's "The Lilting Banshee" that took hold in the session repertoire.
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- 2:12
- 5:24
- 4:11
- 1:37
- 12:18
- 11:56
Heard on these recordings
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BlackwaterThe Best Traditional Irish Sessions In The World
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