The Vale of Aherlow, by John Irwine Whitty. First lines: Aherlow! beautiful oak-girded valley, / Spring from the Gualtees, their lovliest child.Newspaper cutting, c.1870.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century

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First lines: My heart was full of happiness, / Each scene around me bright, ...'Cross' is used in the religious sense.Decorative type border.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century

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First lines: In Dublin town I was brought up that city of great fame, / My parents reared me tenderly and many there who knew the same.On the rekindling of the Fenian spirit in Australia among deportees.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Fenians--Australia | Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century

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First lines: You sons of fame that her [sic] my theme pay attention for a whi[le] / I do not jest i do protest i will cause you all to smile.

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

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First lines: As through Erin's nation I chanced to stray, / By the lovely sure of Waterford Quay.Imperfect.

Laments | Ballads, English--Ireland | O'Brien, William Smith, 1803-1864

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First lines: The "dogs of war" they are let loose and Europe's in a flame, / The sound of cannon it is hear, o'er continent and main ...Details the major events of the Franco-Prussion War, 1870-71.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871

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