"Irish Emigrant Ballads and Songs"
Wright
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CHAPTER I - THE SITUATION IN IRELAND

OH! ONCE WE WERE ILLIGANT PEOPLE                                                34
Same first line Source:   
The Universal Irish Song Book, 450.

THE TROUBLES OF ERIN                                                                35
"We know there are many in Erin"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: National Library of Ireland

IRELAND, POOR IRELAND!                                                                       36
"There's a dear little island away o'er the sea,"
Source: Broadside, E. G. Mayfield, Dublin Located: Yale University Library

ECHOES FROM IRELAND                                                                37
"Old Ireland we know it is in a bad state,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: The Newberry Library

WHAT'S DEAR IRELAND COME TO                                                        38
"One cold winter's night as the day was dawning,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Cambridge University Library

THE DEAR EMERALD ISLE                                                                40
"Kind friends, will ye help a poor, weary stranger,"
Source: O'Conor, Old-Time Songs and Ballads of Ireland, 110.

THE WRONGS OF ERIN                                                                       41
"You learned men of fame excuse a feeble frame,"
Source: Broadside, H. Such, London Located: British Museum

A NEW SONG, CALLED, THE DISTRESSED SONS OF ERIN!                                43
"Sweet Erin, my country, how long wilt thou grieve,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: British Museum

THE FARMER'S DISTRESS                                                                44
"You Farmers of the nation of high and low degree,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin

JOHN MALONE                                                                                45
"You persecuted Wexfordmen, wherever you may be,"
Source: Ranson, Songs of the Wexford Coast, 81.

LAMENT OF THE EVICTED IRISH PEASANT                                                46
"The night is dark and dreary,"
Source: Sparling, Irish Minstrelsy, 205-06.

A NEW SONG ENTITLED THE KERRY EVICTION                                               47
"A farmer named McMahan in Kerry once did dwell,"
Source: Broadside, Nicholson, Belfast
Located: Reported by Zimmerman (Irish Political Street Ballads and Rebel Songs,286-87) as being in the Central Library, Belfast.

THE IRISH TENNANT FARMERS LAMENT FROM EVICTION FROM HIS NATIVE HOME        48
"All you that simpathize with poor old Ireland"
Source: Broadside, no imprint, but probably P. Brereton of Dublin   Located: New York Public Library

EVICTIONS IN IRELAND! OR, WHY DID I LEAVE MY COUNTRY?                        50
"I love to sing of Erin's Isle, a country dear to me,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Mitchell Library, Glasgow

THREE LEAVES OF SHAMROCK                                                        51
"When leaving dear old Ireland in the merry month of June,"
Source: Broadside, W. J. Wehman, New York Located: Henry E. Huntington Library

SKIBBEREEN*                                                                               52
"Oh, Father, I often heard you talk of Erin's lovely isle;"
Source: Fowke, Traditional Singers and Songs from Ontario, 48-49.
This song has wide distribution.

SKIBBEREEN*                                                                               54
(This variant seems quite different musically.)
Source: Hughes, Irish Country Songs, 76-84.

NEW SONG ON SKIBBEREEN                                                                64
"What cry is this upon the winds"
Source: Sinn Fein (Dublin), June 21, 1913, 3. Located: New York Public Library

AN IRISH MARSEILLAISE                                                                65
"Rise! rise! a glorious day is breaking,"
Source: Geary, Songs of the Irish Land War, 16-17.

A NEW SONG CALL'D THE OLD MANS COMPLAINT OF HIS LANDLORD                       66
"Good people lend an ear, sa's the poor old man,"
Source: Broadside, P. Brereton, Dublin Located: National Library of Dublin. The Bodleian Library, Oxford, holds a variant (no imprint).
The song appeared also in 'The Universal Songster, n.p. (British Museum).

THE IRISH EMIGRANT'S ADDRESS TO HIS IRISH LANDLORD . . .                        68
"I'm now going to a country, where"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin

THE RACES OF BALLYHOOLY (in Irish and English)*                                        70
"A story I've to tell you, friends, and 'tis no false relation,"
Source: O'Sullivan, Songs of the Irish, 157-59.

MEMORY OF THE DEAD (WHO FEARS TO SPEAK OF NINETY-EIGHT?)                        73
"Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight?"
Source: Broadside, John J.. Daly, New York Located: Library Company of Philadelphia.
Also in Sparling and elsewhere. John Kells Ingram is the author.

IRISH PATRIOTS OF 98                                                                74
"Ye heroes brave of ninety eight,"
Source: Broadside, H. De Marsan, New York Located: Library Company of Philadelphia

AN EXCELLENT NEW SONG ON A SEDITIOUS PAMPHLET                                75
"Brocades and damasks and tabbies and gauzes,"
Source: Irish Minstrelsy, 41-46. The author is believed to be Dean Swift.

MY EMMETT'S NO MORE                                                                76
"Despair in her wild eye, a daughter of Erin,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Cambridge University Library

THE REPEAL OF THE UNION-ERIN'S RIGHTS                                                77
"Now just give attention, you sons of Hibernia,"
Source: Broadside, Thompson, Liverpool Located: British Museum

HOME RULE AND FREEDOM                                                                79
"There's a nation called Erin, the land I was born in,"
Source: Broadside, Peter Roach (?), Birmingham Located: Yale University Library

THE LAMENTATION OF MICHAEL BARRETT                                                 80
"I will unfold to young and old if you but lend an ear"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located:   British Museum

A NEW SONG ON THE GENERAL TAXATION OF OUR DAYS                                81
"Come neibours draw near till I tell you a tale"
Source: Broadside, P. Brereton, Dublin Located: New York Public Library. Also in the Boston Public Library.

A NEW SONG ON THE TAXES*                                                                83
"All you young men an' maidens come an' listen to my song," Source: O Lochlainn, Irish Street Ballads, 8-9.

THE IRISH LAND LEAGUE                                                                85
"Of the wrongs of Ireland I will sing,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Mitchell Library, Glasgow

THE LAND LEAGUES ADVICE TO THE TENANT FARMERS OF IRELAND                86
"Attend to me you tenant farmers thats assembled in this town,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Cambridge University Library.
Also in Zimmerman.

CATHOLIC RENT                                                                        87
"You genuine muse devine your aid to me incline,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Cambridge University Library

THE CHURCH BILL AND DOWNFALL OF BRIBERY                                        88
"You sons of the Shamrock attend to my ditty,"
Source: Broadside, P. Brereton, Dublin Located: Boston Public Library

THE FAMINE SONG*                                                                        90
"Oh, the praties they are small, over here, over here,"
Source: Galvin, Irish Songs of Resistance, 44.
Widely reprinted.

AMHRAN NA BPRATAI DUBHA-THE SONG OF THE BLACK POTATOES (In Irish and English)* 91
"O! King of Glory, hear and answer us," Source: Songs of the Irish Gaels, 31-31.

THE BLIGHTED POTATES                                                                93
"Ther is a man going through the land,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint
Located: Cambridge University Library. A P. Brereton, Dublin, broadside is called MURPHY THE BLIGHTED POTATOES (New York Public Library).

A NEW SONG ON THE ROTTEN POTATOES                                                94
"You landlords of Ireland I'd have you beware,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint (1847) Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin.
Also in Zimmerman.

ERIN GO BRAGH                                                                           95
"Green was the fields where my forefathers dwelt,"
Source: Broadside, De Marsan, New York Located: Library Company of Philadelphia. As THE EXILED IRISHMAN'S LAMENTATION in The Exile of Erin's Songster.

RELIEF FOR IRELAND                                                                        96
"Arouse, my Irish heroes! it's painful to relate;"
Source: Broadside, H. DeMarsan, New York Located: Brown University (John Hay Library)

FENIAN'S HOPE OF INDEPENDENCE                                                        97
"Come, all you true bred Irishmen, and listen unto me,"
Source: Stephens' Fenian Songster, 46-47. Located:   University of Texas Library

A NEW SONG ON THE HIRING OF SERVANTS                                                98
"You young men and maidens draw near for awhile"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Bodleian Library, Oxford. Also in a P. Brereton, Dublin, broadside at the University of Chicago.

NEW SONG ON THE SURPRISING VICTORY OF AN EMIGRANT FEMALE OVER A DESPERATE ROBBER AND HIGHWAYMAN . . .                                                                        100
"I pray attend and ear now lend to what I'll here relate,"
Source: Broadside, John F. Nugent, Dublin Located: National Library of Ireland

I'M IRISH TO THE BACKBONE                                                                102
"I'm Irish, and soon I will show you" Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: The Newberry Library

YOU CAN EMIGRATE FOR NOTHING, BOYS                                                103
Same first line
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin

THE OUL' BOG HOLE-THE EMIGRANT'S TRAGEDY                                       104
"Ye Pattersons of Erin's Isle, come due attention pay."
Source: Chapbook, no imprint but probably English (1839-ca. 1850) Located: UCLA Library

GIVE ME THREE GRAINS OF CORN, MOTHER                                                105
SAME first line
Source: Sinn Fein (Dublin), June 21, 1913, 3. Located: New York Public Library.
A broadside by Andrews, New York, is Entitled THREE GRAINS OF CORN (British Museum).