Very interesting, L Newby, your links to the photograph of the older J B Geoghegan and the Stationers' Hall copyright registration 1889. I have recently commissioned some Stationers' Hall research in the National Archives but did not reach these items. The Index to the Registers 1842-84 lists the following Geoghegan songs only: 'A Diamond in the Rough', 'Lines on the Great Flood', 'Napoleon Talks of War, Boys', 'Oh, Marigold!', 'Rock the Cradle, John', 'Same Old Game', 'Volunteers, Rouse and be Ready'. With the exception of 'Oh Marigold', all of these appear in Sminky's list of songs above, dated 7 May 10.

As per the separate thread 'Cockles and Mussels' I am particularly interested in establishing whether J B Geoghegan wrote the famous Dublin song of the name, starring Molly Malone, as well as the quite similar but now less well known London version starring Jim the Musselman.