Key signature: Edorian
Submitted on October 30th 2004 by ragaman.
This tune has been added to 22 tunebooks.
Also known as The Eight And Forty Sisters.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Walls Of Limerick, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Edor
d=c|:BE~E2 GBAF|DFA=c BGAF|GFEF GAB^c|1 d^cdf efd=c:|2 d^cdf ~e3f||
|:gfef gbag|fddc dfaf|1 gfef gbaf|gefd Beef:|2 bgaf gfed|Bcdf ef||
From Henrik Norbeck's collection.
Named after the famous Irish ice-cream and sausage manufacturer, this tune (according to Henrik Norbeck's notes) was recorded by Frankie Gavin on 'Frankie Goes to Town'. I am posting it it response to a request by Brian (bribanjo) for a tune for the dance, The Walls of Limerick. Apparently, the dance follows a 32-bar cycle, so perhaps this tune is not ideal, but the parts can always be doubled.
As mentioned in Henrik Norbecks transcription notes, it is a variant of Tie the Ribbons,
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2572
# Posted on October 30th 2004 by ragaman
Couldn't we have just got this direct from HN's, or indeed JC's?
# Posted on October 30th 2004 by Dow
Or at least "kid on" you learned it at your local session.
# Posted on October 30th 2004 by Johannes J
I posted this tune because it was relevant to a particular discussion thread. It was not in my repertoire (although I intend to add it) but I knew it existed in some collection somewhere, so I sought it out. Yes, you could have found it in Henrik Norbeck's site, had you chosen to - so could Bribanjo, but for whatever reason, he didn't.
Some users of this site, unlike myself, have neither the time nor the inclination to browse endlessly through abc collections (Good for them - they live in the real world), but are happy top check for new tunes on this site from time to time. Surely I am doing no harm in bringing this tune - a nice one, at that - to their attention.
Rest assured, I would not paste someone else's transcription of a tune onto this site without a specific reason. If this were not the case, I might just as well paste a tune a day and have the entire Norbeck collection transferred hither in 2.5 years. Furthermore, I would never post another person's transcription without an explicit reference to them.
# Posted on November 1st 2004 by ragaman
Oh No It Isn't!
It is my opinion that this tune has never been known as The Walls of Limerick. Most common Irish ceili dances do share their title with a tune, but to my knowledge there is no reel called The Walls of Limerick. If anyone knows otherwise then put me straight.
As pointed out above, the dance works on a 32 bar structure, so a 16 bar tune is not really well suited.
# Posted on October 28th 2005 by kris
The Walls of Limerick - Polka
No, but I have heard this Polka called 'The Walls of Limerick':
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/5119/comments
Perhaps they play Polkas for this dance, down in Kerry?
# Posted on October 28th 2005 by Ptarmigan