"Irish Emigrant Ballads and Songs"
Wright
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CHAPTER III - THE BANISHED AND THE TRANSPORTED

THE RAMBLER FROM CLARE*                                                               208
"The first of my courtship that ever was known,"
Source:   Broadside, no imprint Located: Cambridge University Library
Cambridge has several broadsides of this song. The National Library of Ireland has at least one (by Haly of Cork); the song appears in many songsters and song books. The two tunes which follow are from Joyce, Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (194-195) and Stanford-Petrie, The Complete Collection of Irish Music (395).

THE IRISH TRANSPORT                                                                209
"In the county of Limerick, near the town of Ramshorn,"
Source: Anderson, Farewell to Old England, reports that copies of this broadside (Ryle, London, 1845) are in the National Library of Australia. The Huntington Library holds a shorter, badly printed, and somewhat different version printed by W. Wright, Birmingham (1816), while another Birmingham broadside (Jackson and Son) is in the Cambridge University Library.

THE BANISHED DEFENDER                                                                210
"You Catholics of Erin, give ear unto these lines I write,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Yale University Library

THE FENIAN'S ESCAPE                                                                        211
"Now, boys, if you will listen to the story I'll relate,"
Source: O'Conor, Irish Com-All-Ye's, 55.

THE BALLAD OF THE CATALPA                                                               212
"She was a Yankee whale ship and commander"
Source: Wannan, The Wearing of the Green, 67-68. See the English music hall song, SEVEN LONG YEARS. A NEW SONG

SIMPATHISEING WITH THE FENIAN EXILES                                               21-3
"My Limrick friends come rally around,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint (probably P. Brereton, Dublin) Located: Cambridge University Library

THE ESCAPE OF STEPHENS, THE FENIAN CHIEF                                        214
"Perhaps you'd like to know,"
Source: Broadside, H. DeMarsan, New York Located: Library Company of Philadelphia

A WELCOME TO JAMES STEPHENS                                                        215
"All hail to Jimmie Stephens,"
Source: Broadside, H. DeMarsan, New York Located: Library Company of Philadelphia Also in the Newberry Library.

GALLANT MICHAEL HAYES                                                                216
"I am a bold undaunted fox, that never was before on tramp,"
Source: Broadside, H. Such, London Located: British Museum

THE GALLANT FARMERS' FAREWELL TO IRELAND                                        217
"Farewell to old Ireland the land of my Fathers,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint (Brereton?) Located: Cambridge University Library. See THE GREAT ELOPEMENT TO AMERICA

TRIAL AND SENTENCE OF MITCHELL                                                        219
"I pray give attention, to what I'm going to mention,"
Source: Broadside, W. M'Call, Liverpool Located: Yale University Library

GRANUA'S LAMENT FOR THE LOSS OF THE BLACKBIRD MITCHEL                        220
"Come all you Irishmen both great and small,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint [1848] Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin
The song was reprinted in Sinn Fein (Dublin) on June 14, 1913 (New York Public Library) under the title of THE IRISH PATRIOT.

W. McNAMARA'S LAMENT FOR JOHN MITCHELL                                        221
"You Irish heroes of Hibernia's nation,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint (but not American) Located: New York Public Library

MRS. MITCHEL'S LAMENT FOR HER HUSBAND                                        222
"I am an unhappy female in grief I'm left bewailing,"
Source: Broadside, Haly, Cork Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin

JOHN MITCHEL, THE IRISH PATRIOT AND EXILE                                        223
"He's come, he has come, the Steamer is landing,"
Source: Broadside, Andrews, New York Located: Library Company of Philadelphia

MITCHEL'S ADDRESS TO HIS COUNTRYMEN*                                                224
"I am a bold true Irishman,"
Source: Broadside, John Troy, Waterford Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin
Zimmerman and Galvin cite an additional verse. The melody which follows is from Galvin, Irish Songs of Resistance. The song was reprinted in Sinn Fein, June 14, 1913 (New York Public Library).

MITCHEL'S FAREWELL TO IRELAND                                                       225
"Farewell to you dear Erin's shore,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin

THE ESCAPE OF MEAGHER                                                                226
"You true Irish heroes to me lend an ear,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Reported by Zimmerman in his Irish Political Street Ballads and Rebel Songs (242-43) as being in the Trinity College Library, Dublin. A variant by Andrews, New York, is in the Library of Congress.

NEW SONG ON THE BANISHMENT OF PATRICK BRADY                                227
"You sons of poor old Granuale, I hope you will attend,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Cambridge University Library

ROSSA'S FAREWELL TO ERIN*                                                               229
"Farewell to friends of Dublin Town,"
Source: O Lochlainn, Irish Street Ballads, 68-69.

SONG OF AN EXILE                                                                        230
"In Ireland 'tis evening - from toil my friends hie all,"
Source: The Exile of Erin's Songster, 196-198. Located: Harvard University Library
The author, James Orr, took part in the rebellion of 1798. When he at last surrendered, he was encouraged to "transport himself" to America.

BURKE'S FAREWELL                                                                        231
"Farewell to the land of my birth and adoption,"
Source: Broadside, H. Such, London Located: British Museum. Also in a broadside (no imprint) in the Cambridge
University Library.

BURKE'S REPRIEVD                                                                        232
"You sons of old Erin I pray you draw nigh then,"
Source: Broadside, H. Such, London Located: British Museum

SWEET CLONALEE*                                                                        234
"When first from my country a stranger I went,"
Source: Sam Henry Collection Located: Central Library, Belfast

THE IRISH MAIL ROBBER*                                                               235
"It's adieu to old Ireland,"
Source: Flanders, The New Green Mountain Songster, 140-141.

SMITH O'BRIEN'S FAREWELL                                                                236
"Farewell to you, dear Erin's shore,"
Source: Broadside, Hodges, London Located: Cambridge University Library

A MUCH-ADMIRED SONG CALLED GREEN ON THE CAPE                               237
"I'm a lad that's forced in exile from my native land," Source:   
Broadside, no imprint Located: Bodleian Library, Oxford