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Thread #2541   Message #289237
Posted By: GUEST,Martin Ryan
01-Sep-00 - 10:44 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: In Praise of the City of Mullingar
Subject: RE: Need words for
A song called "Sweet Castlehyde" is often mentioned as the first of these. Others include "The Praises of Kingstown Harbour", which James N Healy dates to a street ballad of 1821, the year George the Fourth visited what is now called Dun Laoghaire!

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