# Talk:Syracuse University Alma Mater

While looking into the tune Annie Lisle, I stumbled onto this page and noticed that it refers to Annie Lisle as an "Irish melody". The only source I can find for this claim is an article in this journal where it is mentioned in passing: "The old Irish melody "Annie Lisle" ..." (https://www.jstor.org/stable/41206409). The best source I can find for the origin of this piece is from The Book of World Famous Music where it confirms the existence of a copy in the LOC from 1857 and the American composer H.S. Thompson (https://books.google.com/books?id=EVninY59ul0C&pg=PA102#v=onepage&q&f=false). I feel as though this is enough information to drop the "Irish melody" descriptor from this page but I am wondering if there are any other sources supporting that claim that I just haven't been able to find. Interested in your thoughts. Bldrgeist (talk) 21:10, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

To answer my own question, the words at least appear in an Irish song published in 1947 (https://archive.org/details/SongsOfIrelandAnd/page/312/mode/2up) but I cannot find the melody anywhere before 1857. Bldrgeist (talk) 06:08, 6 April 2025 (UTC)