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Posted By: nutty
04-Mar-04 - 02:08 AM
Thread Name: Discussion: Lament of the Irish Emigrant
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lament of the Irish Emigrant
The Bodleian Library has a broadside of this with full seven verses
The Irish Emigrant
Full History of the broadside is given and dated to before 1834
Printer: Walker (Durham)
Date: between 1797 and 1834
Imprint: Walker, Printer, Durham. Printer's Series: (20).
Illus. Ballads on sheet: 2
Note: The border and cut are coloured on Johnson Ballads 1567 and Johnson Ballads 1568
Copies: Harding B 11(239)
Johnson Ballads 1567
Johnson Ballads 1568
Johnson Ballads 1569
Johnson d.1773(p. 154v)
Ballads: 1. Ben Block ("Ben Block was a vet'ran of naval renown ..")
Author: Collins, John
Subject: Sailors - veterans
2.The Irish emigrant ("I'm sitting on the stile, Mary ..")
Author: Dufferin and Clandeboye, Helen Selina Sheridan
Subject: Emigration - Irish