Jack Campin: Tell us the name of the song. Maybe we'll be able to find it at the Levy collection or one of the similar sites.

"Doctor Darkey", from Beechams Music Portfolio, volume 10 (advertising "Beecham's Patent Pills"). From the cover listing it looks like Beechams published a *lot* of music - 300 titles.

It looks like it was a rewrite of a pre-existing song with a plug for Beechams added at the end. It would be interesting to know if they rewrote all the other songs they published.

[Dublin in the Rare Ould Times}
So I also would like an explanation as to how that song is an attack.

Look at the writer's website. There are a whole bunch of reactionary attitudes there, bordering on fascism, which make it quite clear we are to take it exactly as written - black men from Birmingham coming to Dublin are just one of the changes he sees as unwelcome.