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Thread #164332 Message #3931833
Posted By: Jim Carroll
19-Jun-18 - 03:15 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Child Ballads in Ireland
Subject: RE: Origins: Child Ballads in Ireland
Hi Willie I'm getting there The ballads I have located so far are below (Irish language versions in red I'm chasing up a version of The Two Sisters and have located Douglas Hyde's text only version of The Cherry Tree Carol in one of our books - in English - I'm going to find if there is an original Irish language text and a tune today - I don't know of a recording Will keep people inforned Jim
02 Elfin Knight (Tri-Coloured House) Mrs Mary Kate McDonagh, Wexford 03 False Knight on the Road, Frank Quinn, Co, Tyrone 04 Lady Isobel and the Elf Knight (Pretty Polly) Bill Cassidy Wexford Traveller 12 Lord Randal (Buried in Kilkenny) Mary Delaney Tipperery Traveller 12 Lord Randal (Henry My Son) Pop's Johnny Connors, Wexford Traveller 12 Lord Randal (An Tighearna Randal in Irish ) Joe Heaney Connemara, Co. Galway 13 Edward (Cain and Abel)'Pops'Johnny Connors, Wexford Traveller 20 Cruel Mother (Pat MacNamara, Co Clare 20 Cruel Mother (children' version) Peggy McCarthy Traveller child (London/Kerry) 21 The Well Below the Valley John Reilly Roscommon Traveller 24 Bonnie Annie, (Green Banks of Yarrow) Mrs Maguire, Belfast 39 Tam Linn, Saturday Night is Hallowe'en Night, Eddie Butcher, Co. Derry 44 Two Magicians (Blackbirds and Thrushes) Charles O'Boyle Belfast 46 Captain Wedderburn's (Mr Woodburren's) Courtship Tom Lenihan 53 Lord Bateman (Lord Baker) Joe Connealy Co Clare) 54 Cherry Tree Carol Mrs Maguire, Belfast 56 Dives and Lazerus Martiln Lyons (unkown) 68 Young Hunting (Lady Margaret) Martin McDonagh, Roscommon Traveller 74 Fair Margaret and Sweet William (The Old Armchair) Martin Howley, Clare) 75 Lord Lovel (Lord Levett) Tom Lenihan Clare 75 Lord Donegal Keane Sisters, Galway 76 Lord Gregory Ollie Conway, Clare 77 Sweet William's Ghost Sandy McConnell, Fermanagh 84 Barbara Allen ( St James' Hospital), Tom Lenihan, Co. Clare 87 Prince Robert (Lord Abore and Mary Flynn), Frank Feeney, Co,. Dublin 92 (appen) Bonny Bee Horn Lowlands of Holland Paddy Tunney, Fermanagh 95 (app.) Maid Freed from the Gallows Derry Gaol Sarah Makem, Armagh 99 Johnny Scott Mary Baylon, Co. Louth 100 Willie o'Winsbury (John Barden) Mary McGrath Co. Wexford Traveller; 106 Famous Flower of Serving Men (My Brother Built Me a Bancy Bower) Mary Delaney, Tipperary Traveller 112 The Baffled Knight, John Campbell, Co. Cavan 155 Little Sir Hugh, John Byrne, Donegal 178 Dowie Dens of Yarrow The Dewy Glens of Yarrow Brigid Murphy, Armagh 200 Gypsie Laddie (Seven Yellow Gypsies) Paddy Doran 200 Gypsy Laddie (Dark-Eyed Gypsy) Joe Holmes, Antrim 209 Geordie (The Jersey) Mrs Maguire, Ulster 209 Geordie (Georgie) Mrs Casey, Co Clare 221 Katherine Jaffrey) Green Wedding Nora Cleary, Co. Clare 243 Demon Lover (The Banks of the Sweet Viledee) Frank Brown, Roscommon 248 The Grey Cock (Biscayo) Bill Cassidy, Wexford Traveller 272 Suffolk Miracle (Holland Handkerchie)Tom Lenihan, Co. Clare 274 Our Goodman Thomas Moran, Co. Leitrim 274 Our Goodman (in Irish) Peigin is Peadar Joe Heaney Galway 275 Get Up and Bar the Door (tale version) (Go For the Water( Mikeen McCarthy, Kerry Traveller 277, Gaberlunzie Man (Linkin' O'er the Lea) Chambers Sisters, Fermanagh) 278 Farmer's Curst Wife (The Old Woman From Connor) Margaret Dunne, Cavan 281 Keach in the Creel (Cuchie, Cuchie Coo Go Way Jamesie McCarthy 283 The Crafty Farmer (John and the Farmer) Packie Byrne, Donegal 293 Jock o' Hazelgreen, Packie Manus Byrne, Donegal