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Thread #21343   Message #741277
Posted By: MartinRyan
03-Jul-02 - 06:35 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Roisin Dubh / Dark Rosaleen
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Rosin Dubh Dark Rosaleen GaelicEngli
Jim

As far as I can make out, O'Curry's original had five verses, as had Mangan's "translation". There's no sign of horses in the Irish version in Donal O'Sullivan's Songs of the Irish which I would take to be O'Curry's set.

Regards

p.s. O'Sullivan,incidentally, reckoned that the last verse was a later addition.