Hi,

The oldest Irish version comes from the US as sung by Irish emigrants around 1900, then there are two Irish versions circa 1950s-1970s in UK. The one by Mary Doran (?) -believe it's Oxford Girl (?) I don't have. I have Jim Carroll's version.

So I only know of three Irish versions- Anyone know of more? Apparently there are no Irish broadsides. So Wexford comes from the Cruel Miller broadsides but not from Berkshire. It doesn't seem to be from an Irish source.

If the Scottish handkerchief versions came to the US then they might be circa 1800 which means they could be from a missing Scottish broadside printed around the time of the Cruel Miller. They must be older than the late 1800s. What do you think?

Richie