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Thread #102221   Message #2069866
Posted By: GUEST,Bob Coltman
06-Jun-07 - 07:57 AM
Thread Name: DTStudy: The Peeler and the Goat
Subject: RE: DTStudy: The Peeler and the Goat
As indicated, the song is printed in Colm O Lochlainn, Irish Street Ballads (the first, not the second volume), NY, Citadel/Corinth, 1960, pp 146-7.

O Lochlainn's note, p. 225, says of this song, "Learnt in childhood from E. Gilshenan, Virginia, Co. Cavan. cf. EFSii, 259; id. vi, 299, Aryr is me' 'mo wogadyl. IFSvi, 27, An Buailteo'ir (from Bunting MS.) M142, Little Celia Connellan. Written by Darby Ryan.

EFS = Journal of the English Folk Song Society
IFS = Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society
M = Moffat's Minstrelsy of Ireland

Bob