First lines: Come all you tender women and unto me draw near / It's of a cruel step-mother quickly you shall hear.
Ballads, English--Ireland | Marriage--Ireland--History--19th century | Ireland--Social conditions--19th century
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Two ballads on one sheet:278a: A new song on the kidnappers. First lines: You people of the city attend to my song, / Till I sing a few verses that won't keep you long.278b: Orangeman's daughter! First lines: Come all you young fellows who wish to get maried [sic] / I'd have you
Ballads, English--Ireland | Orangemen | Ireland--Foreign relations--Great Britain
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First lines: Our Queen woke up the other night, and filled the room with langhter [sic], / She sang alond [sic] in sweet delight, how petticoats is master.
Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--History--19th century | Marriage--Ireland--History--19th century
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First lines: It was in the month of May, when all things were, gay, / A young shepherdess stood straying with her flock.
Ballads, English--Ireland | Marriage--Ireland--History--19th century | Ireland--Social conditions--19th century
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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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First lines: As I went a walking one morning in may, / boney [sic] nice lassey [sic] come tripping that wad [sic]. Printed: Dublin: [John F.] Nugent.
Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--History--19th century | Marriage--Ireland--History--19th century
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First lines: There was a widow lived in this place, she had three charming sons / Their father died and left them when they were very young.
Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--History--19th century | Marriage--Ireland--History--19th century
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First lines: The red moon is up, on the moss-covered mountain, / The hour is at hand when I promised to rove.
Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century | Marriage--Ireland--History--19th century
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First lines: I am an airy young fellow that now leads a comical life / My mind it will never be easy until I am tied to a wife.
Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century | Ireland--History--19th century
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First lines: I am a young fellow, / That's in search of a wife.
Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century | Marriage--Ireland--History--19th century
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First lines: Come all you young fellows that wish to get married / I'd have you beware of a great dandy wife. Printed: Dublin: John F. Nugent.
Ballads, English--Ireland | Marriage--Ireland--History--19th century | Ireland--Social conditions--19th century
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First lines: My name is Dick Mooney I'm very near dying / One daughter I have that's in want of a man.
Ballads, English--Ireland | Marriage--Ireland--History--19th century | Ireland--Social conditions--19th century
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