The Lilting Banshee
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Lilting Banshee", "Ballinasloe Fair", "The Church of Dromore", "John Conroy's",<br> "The Killaloe Boat", "Lay Her Down Easy", "The Miller of Glanmire" and "Ryan's Favorite"<br> is an Irish double jig in A minor/dorian.<br> It is listed as “The Miller of Glanmire” in O’Neill’s Dance Music of Ireland (1907).<br> A banshee is one of many Irish/Scottish female fae (i.e., supernatural). When someone is<br> about to die a banshee will be heard keening, or be seen washing that person’s blood-stained<br> clothes (or armor). Keening is a kind of wailing, so there’s not much lilt in it.<br> It was printed in<br> Bulmer & Sharpley's Music from Ireland (1974),<br> Cotter's Traditional Irish Tin Whistle Tutor (1989),<br> Mallinson's 100 Essential (1995), Sullivan's Session Tunes, vol. 2 and<br> O’Neill’s Dance Music of Ireland (1907).<br> It was recorded by<br> John Vesey on Sligo Fiddler,<br> McGreevy and Cooley on McGreevy and Cooley,<br> The Chieftains on Boil the Breakfast Early,<br> James Keane on With Friends Like These and<br> Grey Larsen and Paddy League on Dark of the Moon.<br>
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