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Thread #4206 Message #4179890
Posted By: Robert B. Waltz
24-Aug-23 - 08:49 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Tim Finnegan's / Finigan's Wake
Subject: RE: Origins: Tim Finnegan's / Finigan's Wake
BenTraverse wrote, since it's first extant publishing in 1864.
I can't give you a precise earlier date, but this is almost certainly too late. There's a broadside at the Library of Congress singing web site, their #sb40523b, which was published by de Marsan. According to Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, the de Marsan broadsides in this sequence were published 1859-1860.