Frank wrote above with lyrics: " Michael Considine... born circa 1859 and died circa 1873" and someone pointed out to me that this must be a typo, since that would have made him only about 14 when he died.
In Frank's article in Irish Music magazine, the dates he used were: born "about 1850" and "headed to America in 1870" and "1872... penned what was soon to be his immortal epitaph".

Alice