Hello With respect, Joyce did not hear the song My Jewel My Joy. Rather, he got the papers of an Irish antiquarian who had collected one verse of it from a gentleman who said he had heard it. Joyce published the single verse. He also published a tune which is not 'The Bard of Armagh'. For a good account of some recent research, I suggest the Katherine Briggs Memorial lecture given y Prof R Jenkins. His title says it all: The Unfortunate Rake’s Progress: A Case Study of the Construction of Folklore by Collectors and Scholars Richard Jenkins
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