oh..I like deathbed laments...written we think by the departing one...

MacPherson's Rant
Ballad de Louis Reille (I just read somewhere that Reil is a French name for Reilly after the groups mixed in Quebec post-potato famine).
Eomon na Croic

Well..lots of Irish ones..Kevin Barry, Kelly the boy from Killane

Most sad..here's to the dead already and here's to the next one to die. mg