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Matt Brophy, Medford High School
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As edited by Robert L. Wright And published by Bowling Green University Popular Press 1975 ISBN# 0-87972-104-9
 * Index of Songs in Irish Emigrant Ballads and Songs
 * Index of Songs in Irish Emigrant Ballads and Songs

//Title - First Line//
 * Chapter 1 - The Situation in Ireland**


 * Oh! Once We Were Illigant People - Same first line
 * The Troubles of Erin - "We know there are many in Erin"
 * Ireland, Poor Ireland - "There's a dear little island o'er the sea"
 * Echoes From Ireland -"Old Ireland we know it is in a bad state"
 * What's Dear Ireland Come to -"One cold winter's night as the day was dawning"
 * The Dear Emerald Isle - "Kind friends, will ye help a poor, weary stranger"
 * The Wrongs of Erin - "You learned men of fame excuse a feeble frame"
 * A New Song, Called, The Distressed Sons of Erin! - "Sweet Erin, my country, how long wilt thou grieve"
 * The Farmer's Distress - "You farmers of the nation of high and low degree"
 * John Malone - "You persecuted Wexfordmen, wherever you may be"
 * Lament of the Evicted Irish Peasant - "The night is dark and dreary"
 * A New Song Entitled The Kerry Eviction - "A farmer named McMahan in Kerry once did dwell"
 * The Irish Tennant Farmers Lament From Eviction From His Native Home - "All you that simpathize with poor old Ireland"
 * Evictions in Ireland, or, Why Did I Leave My Country - "I love to sing of Erin's Isle, a country dear to me"
 * Three Leaves of Shamrock - "When leaving dear old Ireland in the merry month of June"
 * Skibbereen - "Oh, Father, I often heard you talk of Erin's lovely isle"
 * Skibbereen - Editor's note: "This variant seems quite different musically"
 * New Song of Skibbereen - "What cry is this upon the winds"
 * An Irish Marseillaise - "Rise! Rise! a glorious day is breaking"
 * A New Song Call'd The Old Mans Complaint of His Landlord - "Good people lend an era, sa's the poor old man"
 * The Irish Emigrant's Address to His Landlord - "I'm now going to a country where"
 * The Races of Ballyhooly (in Irish and English) - "A story I've to tell you, friends and 'tis is no false relation"
 * Memory of The Dead (Who Fears to Speak of Ninety-Eight?) - "Who Fears to Speak of Ninety-Eight?"
 * Irish Patriots of 98 - "Ye heroes brave of ninety-eight"
 * An Excellent New Song on a Seditious Pamphlet - "Brocades and damasks and tabbies and gauzes"
 * My Emmett's No More - "Despair in her wild eyes, a daughter of Erin"
 * The Repeal of the Union-Erin's Rights - "Now just give attention, you sons of Hibernia"
 * Home Rule and Freedom - "There's a nation called Erin, the land I was born in"
 * The Lamentation of Michael Barrett - "I will unfold to young an old if you but lend an ear"
 * A New Song on the General Taxation of Our Days - "Come neibours draw near till I tell you a tale"
 * A New Song on the Taxes - "All you young men an' maidens come an' listen to my song"
 * The Irish Land League - "Of the wrongs of Ireland I will sing"
 * The Land Leagues Advice to the Tenant Farmers of Ireland - "Attend to me you tenant farmers that's assembled in this town"
 * Catholic Rent - "You genuine muse devine your aid to me incline"
 * The Church Bill and Downfall of Bribery - "You sons of the Shamrock attend to my ditty"
 * The Famine Song - "Oh, the praties they are small, over here, over here"
 * Amhran Na Braptai Dubha - The Song of the Black Potatoes (in Irish and English) - "O! King of Glory, hear and answer us"
 * The Blighted Potates - "Ther is a man going through the land"
 * A New Song of the Rotten Potatoes - "You landlords of Ireland I'd have you beware,"
 * Erin Go Bragh! - "Green was the fields where my forefathers dwelt"
 * Relief For Ireland - "Arouse, my Irish heroes! it's painful to relate;"
 * Fenian's Hope of Independence - "Come, all you true bred Irishmen, and listen unto me"
 * A New Song on the Hiring of Servants - "You young men and maidens draw near for awhile"
 * New Song on the Surprising Victory of an Emigrant Female Over a Desperate Robber and Highwayman - "I pray attend and ear now lend to what I'll here relate."
 * I'm Irish to the Backbone - "I'm Irish, and soon I will show you"
 * You Can Emigrate For Nothing, Boys - Same first line
 * The Oul' Bog Hole - The Emigrant's Tragedy - "Ye Patterson's of Erin's Isle, come due attention pay"
 * Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother - Same first line ||







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