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Thread #8388   Message #51773
Posted By: Bruce O.
02-Jan-99 - 02:18 PM
Thread Name: Origins/ADD: Lannigan's Ball / Lanigan's Ball
Subject: RE: Lannigan's Ball
"Lannigan's Ball" is given on p. 50, of John K. Casey's 'The Rising of the Moon, and other Ballads, Songs and Legends', c 1865-70. No attribution is given or tune cited.

On p. 101 is "Lannigan's Wake" to the tune of "Lannigan's Ball", 'first sung in America by William Carleton at Tony Pastor's Opera House, New York'. This commence: "No doubt you've heard of poor Jerry Lannigan".

"Finnigan's Wake", p. 76, is there attributed to John F. Poole. "The Fellow That Looks like Me" (in DT) and "I'm going to fight mit Sigel" are also by Poole and are in the Levy sheet music collection.