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IRISH LAMENTATIONS

Walsh 1718 3/4 slow
Cook 1979
Recording: AABB irish_lamentation-072-bntad-03.mp3.zip
Video: AABB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GpPLlVzQWY

AABB Version

A1          Take hands 4, all step set 2X to L & R
            1M and 2W turn 2 hands to places
A2          repeat and 2nd corners turn
B1  1-4     All move up set and face own wall (1/2 turn away from partner)
            take inside hands on sides for assisted cast up to progress
    5-8     All move down and set and 1st couple assisted cast up to
            original places
    9-16    1st couple cross and cast down, 1/2 figure of 8 up thru 2s
            who lead up
B2  1-8     Face partner, 4 changes circular hey with hands
    9-16    Ballroom hold, 1s and 2s dance round each other

AAB version

IRISH LAMENTATIONS (N. Broadbridge, Walsh 1735 duple 3/4)
Recording: irish_lamentation-walshb06-04.mp3.zip

A1       1st corners set twice R & L (fwd and back)
         and turn 2 hands
A2       2nd corners same
B   1-8  C1 cast and whole fig. 8 up through C2 (M hand
         W across in front of him) C2 move up at end
    9-16 4 changes of circular hey with hands 
         (1 bar, 3 steps per hand) 
         All turn partners 2H

The tune is at least a generation older than the dance, and its provenance is still contested; it is known as “Lament for Limerick“, and plausible tradition attributes it to Myles O'Reilly (b. 1636) and assigns it to 1691-2, in the wake of the loss of Limerick, under Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan to the English army of William III.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GpPLlVzQWY

Colin Hume AABB Version

There is another version by Colin Hume, https://www.upadouble.info/dance.php?id=IrishLamentation-Hume Hume splits the long B part of the AABB music into B and C.

A1:	First corners set and turn single.  Two-hand turn.
A2:	Second corners the same.
B1:	Ones cast, go well down the outside.  Cast back to place.
C1:	Ones cross; go below the twos who lead up.  Ones half figure eight up.
B2:	Four changes with hands (6 steps each).
C2:	Right-hand turn partner (12 steps).  Left-hand turn.
ins_irish_lamentation.txt · Last modified: 2025/04/09 21:37 by nashjc