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Posted By: Lighter
17-Mar-15 - 12:02 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Leaving of Limerick
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Leaving of Limerick
Seemingly the song's first book publication was as an anonymous composition in The Limerick Compendium, by Jim Kemmy (1997).

Kemmy's source was the Labour Party National Conference Magazine for April, 1997.