See Mick Pearce's link above.

From a column "Irish News" in the newspaper New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIII, Issue 33, 13 December 1895, Page 11:


CORK.— OFF HOME.
[T. D. Sullivan]

I've taken my ticket for Ireland,
    To see the old country once more,
Though many a change has it witnessed
    Since last I set foot on its shore.
I'm sure I could find the old places
    Made dear by past pleasure and joy,
But I'll miss and I'll mourn for the faces
    I knew and I loved when a boy.
Yes, off for Old Ireland I'm starting
    To-day from the quays of New York.
Ho! porter, bring hither your brushes
    And label my luggage for Cork.

Bright scenes that I never set eyes on
    All through the dear country abound,
But in the poor days of my boyhood
    I could not go touring around.
Now over the whole blessed Island
    I'll lovingly travel to see
The spots that are beauteous and famous,
    And well I can tell where they be.
I'd have the full worth of the trouble
    And cost of my trip from New York,
If after I landed in Ireland
    I never went further than Cork.

I've got to return to Columbia;
    A limit I've fixed for my stay,
But many a treasure and token
    I'll bring from old Ireland away.
To crown and complete the collection,
    To lighten and brighten my life,
I'll choose from the daughters of Erin
    A fond and a fair little wife.
At present I know not the partner
    I'll bring to my home in New York,
But one thing is perfectly certain:
    She will be and must be from Cork.