Origins: Isle of Innisfree (Richard Farrelly)

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Tiger
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 08:53 AM

Genie......

I have "Isle of Innisfree" MP3 by Foster & Allen. About 3MB. Very sweet.

Send me a PM if you'd like a copy.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 02:19 AM

OK, I get it now. We are confusing the Main Title theme with the tune that runs throughout the film. Innisfree is the Main Title; Rakes of Mallow part A is the tune that plays a lot for background. I stand corrected.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 02:11 AM

OK, Doug---go here, and choose a MIDI file, probably in G, and see if it is the same tune; please? This is driving me crazy. The Quiet Man theme never actually finishes the song--it's part A only.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: DougR
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 01:45 AM

Sorcha, I don't know the answer to your question, but I watched The Quiet Man for the umpteenth time tonight, and there is no doubt that it is the main musical theme of The Quiet man.

DougR

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 01:08 AM

So, Doug R says this is the featured Theme songo of the film, The Quiet Man. I'm absolutely certain that theme was the tune Rakes of Mallow. Are they the same, then?

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Pene Azul
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 12:54 AM

MIDIs:

Dreams of Alwyn (Isle of Innisfree) from this page on Barry Taylor's site (as per Malcolm's link)

Isle of Innisfree from here

MIDI of the melody here in Mudcat MIDIs.

There are other links in this Google search.

Jeff

Subject: Tune Req.: Isle Of Innisfree
From: Genie
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 12:46 AM

Malcolm, I finally got through to the website, and it's GREAT!--but it did not have "Isle of Innisfree."

Is there another place to find it on the web?

Genie

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Genie
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 03:57 PM

Malcolm, I can't get through to that website right now (it's too busy). But thanks for posting the link!

Genie

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 03:26 PM

Taylor's Traditional Tunebook: Irish Tunes

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Genie
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 03:18 PM

Barry, I clicked on your MIDI link and it didn't work.

Can someone post a MIDI link for the tune or a link to a site that has the sheet music or an MP3? I have heard the song before but can't quite recall all the tune, and I'd love to add it to my St. Patrick's repertoire.

Thanks,

Genie

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: GUEST,Trish
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 01:17 PM

To Tiger,

Thanks for your offer. Yes I would love if you could e-mail me a scanned copy. I have tried to e-mail you but it came back. I need the sheet music to play at the wedding ceremony of a friend of mine. You can e-mail me at [e-mail]

Thanks again,

Trish

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Tiger
Date: 18 Jul 01 - 07:25 AM

I have the sheet music from a nice Foster and Allen songbook. If you'd like me to send you a scan, e-mail me at: [e-mail]

Regards.......Tiger

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Snuffy
Date: 17 Jul 01 - 08:36 PM

The Dream of Olwen?

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Barry T
Date: 17 Jul 01 - 08:25 PM

I understand the melody was based on a traditional tune titled Dreams of Alwyn, but I've never been able to find any info on it. Here's my midi sequence for your entertainment.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: DougR
Date: 17 Jul 01 - 06:34 PM

Twice yet! **BG**

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: ard mhacha
Date: 17 Jul 01 - 04:51 PM

DougR Right on the nose then, Slan Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: DougR
Date: 17 Jul 01 - 04:29 PM

No wonder. It was the featured musical theme of the movie.

DougR

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: ard mhacha
Date: 17 Jul 01 - 02:47 PM

Wolfgang, Yes he was referring to an Island on Lough Gill, and Ezio I have also heard your version as well as Allisons. The song was out around 1952 when "The Quiet Man" was released. Slan Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From:
Date: 17 Jul 01 - 02:33 PM

Does anyone know or have the sheet music to this song?

Thanks,

Trish

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Ezio
Date: 23 Feb 98 - 12:39 PM

Lovely song - one of my preferite.

I love especially the version sung by Sean Tyrrell. In this version (spelled INISFREE) the fourth quatrain is different from the one posted by Alison:

And as the moon peeps high along the rooftops

Of this great city wondrous though it be

I scarce can feel its laughter or its music

My heart's again back home in Inisfree.

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Martin Ryan
Date: 23 Feb 98 - 11:50 AM

Wolfgang
In the song "Innisfree" is used as a name for Ireland. Yeats was referring (at least on one level) to a specific island in one of the Sligo lakes, as far as I remember.
Regards
p.s You might sometimes hear:
"I will arise and go now - and go where there's Guinness free"!

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: Wolfgang Hell
Date: 23 Feb 98 - 05:36 AM

Is this the same island that is praised by W.B. Yeats in his poem "The lake isle of Innisfree"?
Wolfgang

Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
From: NEWFOUNDLANDER
Date: 22 Feb 98 - 07:32 PM

THANKS ALISON

Subject: Lyr Add: ISLE OF INNISFREE (Richard Farrelly)
From: alison
Date: 22 Feb 98 - 04:46 PM

Hi,

Here you go...........

ISLE OF INNISFREE

I've met some folks who say that I'm a dreamer
And I've no doubt there's truth in what they say
But sure a body's bound to be a dreamer
When all the things he loves are far away.

And precious things are dreams unto an exile
They take him o'er the land across the sea,
Especially when it happens he's an exile
From that dear lovely Isle of Innisfree.

And when the moonlight peeps across the roof-tops
Of this great city, wondrous tho' it be
I scarcely feel it's wonder or it's laughter
I'm once again back home in Innisfree.

I wander o'er green hills thro' dreamy valleys
And find a peace no other land could know
I hear the birds make music fit for angels
And watch the rivers laughing as they flow.

And then into a humble shack I wander
My dear old home, and tenderly behold,
The folks I love around the turf fire gathered
On bended knees their rosary is told.

But dreams don't last tho' dreams are not forgotten
And soon I'm back to stern reality,
But tho' they paved the footways here with gold dust
I still would choose the Isle of Innisfree.

Slainte

Alison

Subject: ISLE OF INNISFREE
From: NEWFOUNDLANDER
Date: 22 Feb 98 - 02:13 PM

Looking for the lyrics for Isle of Inishfree. Might not be correct spelling. Also love to have any links to Irish and Newfoundland music.

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Isle of Innisfree added to Digital Tradition Oct 1998