I think I might be in trouble with a connection between Dickens and Belfast, although the period for the song is right.

Actually, Scrump, that isn't such a silly idea except that because of the song's anti-semitism it is risky today.

Roast Beef of Old England is I think Kipper family piss-take of the possibly too old "Hard Times of Old England" - but I'm open to input on the date of the latter.

Does anyone know if "Nelson's Blood" is of that period or whether it is a modern song? To my ear it sounds modern.