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Thread #78835   Message #1424572
Posted By: GUEST,Nerd
01-Mar-05 - 11:23 PM
Thread Name: Irish versions of Child Ballads
Subject: RE: Irish versions of Child Ballads
"The Holland Handkerchief" is a version of "The Suffolk Miracle," and it has been collected in Ireland. "Lord Randall" exists in an Irish-language version, which Joe Heaney used to sing.

Rounder has released two CDs of the "Classic Ballads of Britain and Ireland," which contains Irish versions of:

False Knight on the Road
Elfin Knight
Lord Randal
Edward
Cruel Mother
Captain Wedderburn's Courtship
Lord Bateman
Lord Gregory
Barbara Allen
Little Sir Hugh (If Cecilia Costello, who was born in England to Irish parents, counts as Irish)
The Gypsy Laddie
Katharine Jaffray
The Grey Ghost (Child 248) [Again, Cecilia Costello)
Our Goodman aka seven drunken nights--In Irish Gaelic and Anglo-Irish versions
The Farmer's Curst Wife
The Gaberlunzie Man (Child 279 in the appendix)
The Keach in the Creel.