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First lines: With our guns and our bayonets to Dublin we marched in, / The trees were in blossom, the birds so sweet did sing. Printed: Dublin: W[alter] Birmingham.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--History--19th century

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Object Lord Raglan's volunteerscover

First lines: Down in the wodlands [sic] a poor boy did wander / Down in the lowlands a poor boy did roam.Printed: Dublin: W[alter] Birmingham.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--History--19th century

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Object The fisherman's boycover

First lines: Now girls before you get married, / I pray look before that you leap.Printed: Dublin: [Walter] Birmingham.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Marriage--Ireland--History--19th century | Ireland--Social conditions--19th century

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Object A new song called The wife's lamentationcover

235a: When the moon is on the waters. First lines: When the moon is on the waters, / I will hasten, love, to thee..Printed: Dublin: [Walter] Birmingham.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--History--19th century | Ireland--Social conditions--19th century

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Object When the moon is on the waterscover

First lines: O lovely Mary Donnelly it's you I love the best ! / If fifty girls were round you I'd hardly see the rest. Printed: Dublin: [Walter] Birmingham.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century | Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

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Object A perfectly new song called Lovely Mary Donnellycover

First lines: On a cold winter's morning, as the day was a dawning, / A voice came both hollow and shrill. Printed: Dublin: [Walter] Birmingham.

Laments | Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--History--19th century

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Object The tradesman's laminationcover

First lines: Come all you wild young gentleman so reckless and so bold, / My hardships and my miseries I'm going to unfold. Printed: Dublin: [Walter] Birmingham.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--History--19th century | Ireland--Social conditions--19th century

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Object A new song called Bold McDermottcover

First lines: As I went out one evening, all in the month of June, / The primroses and daisies and violets were in bloom.Printed: Dublin: [Walter] Birmingham.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Roe, River (Northern Ireland) | Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

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Object The River Roecover

First lines: At twenty-one I first began to court a neighbour's child, / We both being young and fond of fun bright Phoebus on us smiled. Printed: Dublin: W[alter] Birmingham.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--History--19th century | Love songs

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Object A new song called the Mullogh loverscover

First lines: A sailor courted a farmer's daughter, / That lived conveient [sic] to the Isle of Man.Printed: Dublin: [Walter] Birmingham.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--History--19th century

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Object The sailor's courtshipcover

First lines: Oh! Erin, my country, although thy harp slumbers, / And lies in oblivion in Tara's old Hall,. Printed: Dublin: [Walter] Birmingham.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--History--19th century | Ireland--Social conditions--19th century

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Object Tara's old hallcover