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Thread #15006   Message #131856
Posted By: M
04-Nov-99 - 05:16 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Molly/Maureen Bawn
Subject: Molly/Maureen Bawn?
I just got this (old) album of Irish singers entitled "The Singing Men Of Ulster." On it is a song called "Molly Bawn," which is in the Digitrad. At a local session, there is a man referred to as The Man Form The North, who has sung an anti-immigration lament called, I think, "Maureen Bawn." I'm curious, is this Molly/Maureen Bawn thing a distinctly Northern phenomenon? Is there some quasi-historical/mythological woman by this name? Alison? Anybody? Any clues?