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Thread #16178   Message #149285
Posted By: InOBU
14-Dec-99 - 10:54 AM
Thread Name: Help: Historical songs
Subject: RE: Help: Historical songs
Of cource, where would we be without the Mayhem of the North! Willie O
Hughie the Grame (framing on a capitol charge, clearical adultry, murder and a good hanging!)

You are just outside the timeperiod for most of the best Irish historical ballads, for example, Bold Irwin, the Shoemaker, which tells a great version of the battle of New Ross - where we made 5,000 fly.
All the best
Larry