Not so,
Women of Ireland and the Theme from Barry Lyndon are one and the same,although whoever re-named the tune Love Theme(from Barry Lyndon) deserves a good slapping about the head with a large wet fish.
Slan,
D.
How about Blind Mary… and without being thought a creep - Planxty Dale Wisely is a lovely tune
Paul
SO… finally I get to know the real name of it - “Mna na hEireann” or “Women of Ireland”… Thanks Mike and dubliner!!
I don’t think that was in the liner notes of the recordings…
Now… can someone please give me pointers on how to approximate an accurate pronunciation of the"Mna na hEireann" ?
It’s not to hard 
Try MINAW for the first word but don’t lean to hard on the W.
The second one is just like the N part of Nothing
The last word should sound like HERRIN with stress on Herr.
Mmmm.. yeah,thats close enough and even a mangled pronunciation is a lot better than " The Love Theme from…".
Slan,
D.
Thanks loads Dubhlinn (look! I got it right this time! 
)
You’re very welcome Annie.
Your little mistake was noted
Dubhlinn is an old word for Dublin (no news there!)
Dubh rhymes with Move and means Black
Linn means Pool so when you put them together you get Blackpool. The early invaders could not get their mouths around the Dubh bit and so they pronounced it Dub, hence Dublin.
Now, there is a totally different name for Dublin in the Irish Language but that’s a story for another day.
Slan,
D.
D.,
I didn’t know this. Of course, I only saw Barry Lyndon once, when it was first released, oh…30 some years ago.
Mike
Ohmygod!!
I’ve just checked up on Barry Lyndon and yes ,it was that long ago.
Realeased in '75 it is one of Kubricks most underated films and the cinematography is stunning. I saw it when it first came out and was amazed by it and though I’ve seen it several times since I still remember that first time like it was yesterday.
" The years fly by and we lose our grasp, or fuse it in the sun"
Neil Young.
Slan,
D.
Both songs contain the line “The water is wide, I can’t swim over.”
Favorite Slow Airs:
- Culloden’s Harvest
- An Feochan
- Fair Maid of Wicklow
- The Black Cat (by Lothlorien)
- Leon’s Waltz
- Stubble Fields of Autumn.
A song I’d love to learn and play as a slow air is “Month of January”. Dolores Keane does a wonderful version of this on her CD “Broken Hearted I’ll Wander” with John Faulkner. I just can’t get the melody started in the right key and initial notes. If anyone has these in any format, I could really use the help.
I actually have two that I am very fond of, BOLD FENIAN MEN and STAR OF THE COUNTY DOWN. I also like SKIBEREEN a lot. Ok I am going to be honest, heck I like all Aires. if you own a low whistle you have to like all aires, don’t you? I thought that was a requirement of ownership.
There’s a mighty song by Ewan McColl called ‘The Terror Time’, which I play as a slow air…it is a chilling, yet beautiful tune. Along with ‘Women of Ireland’, it is among my favorite airs.
So far The Foggy Dew is my favorite. I need to go through and increase my repertoire a bit, since that is about the only song I’ve actually gotten the hang of
I see it’s your first post JillyKB…
Welcome to C&F!
:roll:
Here be dragons!!
Slan,
D.
I also saw that film when it first came out. My opnion, then and now, was that it was a very pretty film - and the most crashing, interminable bore that I ever paid cash money to sit through.
Different strokes…
Chuck,
You’ve got a great memory.
How’s the ribs?,
Slan,
D.
How’s the ribs?
A few minutes ago, I was typing a response to an e-mail message and watching the Tour and a cough got by me before I could either suppress it or get pressure on the ribs (my old post-heart-surgery teddy bear is getting a lot of use this week). Right at this moment, I’m a strong believer in euthanasia. I’ve never been stabbed, but this is just about exactly what I would think being stabbed in the ribs feels like.
I am learning, though, to play a high whistle with very frequent breath intervals.
(sorry)
Don’t worry Chuck,
Time cures everything…(eventually),
Get well soon,
Slan,
D.
Backing up just a bit, but, wasn’t the theme to Barry Lyndon, a Sarabande written by Handel? I remember seeing the movie, and at the time, the Sarabande was a piece I played on the piano.
Good luck with your recovery Chuck!