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Thread #5563   Message #31945
Posted By: Murray@saltspring.com
07-Jul-98 - 02:42 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Rocky Road to Dublin & Dear Old Ireland
Subject: RE: looking for Two old songs
"Dear Old Ireland" (alternative title "Ireland, Boys, Hurrah") is in Walton's New Treasury of Irish Songs and Ballads Part 1 (Dublin, 1968), p. 95, pretty close to the version above--main differ is the burden varies slightly each time. The author is given as T. D. Sullivan, 1857.