First lines: You tender hearted Christians who hear my doleful theme / i [sic] call your kind attention to what I here will say / of us unhappy emigrants ...

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

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Four ballads on one sheet:281a: Cookey darling. First lines: I am waiting at the airey cookey darling, / Your fire burns so brightly I can see.281b: Exile's departure from Erin. First lines: O! sad, was the hour, and gloomy the day / When forced from my friends and my country awa

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

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First lines: O pity the fate of a poor Irish stranger, / That wandered thus far, from his home.Woodcut ornament signed: J B S?Printed: Cork: [Catherine] Haly.

Emigration and immigration--Ireland | Ireland--History--19th century | Ballads, English--Ireland

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First lines: The sultry climes of foreign shores, / May bid luxuriant flowers to blow. Printed: Cork: [Catherine] Haly.

Emigration and immigration--Ireland | Ireland--Social conditions--19th century | Ballads, English--Ireland

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First lines: I had a son and a son-in-law, / And they both trotted off to America.

Emigration and immigration--Ireland | Ireland--History--19th century | Ballads, English--Ireland

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First lines: O pity the fate of a poor Irish stranger / That wandered thus far from his home.

Emigration and immigration--Ireland | Ireland--Foreign relations--Great Britain | Ireland--Social conditions--19th century

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First lines: All you Whose minds are bent on straying, / Listent now to what I'm saying.Printed: Waterford: O’Keeffe.

Emigration and immigration--Ireland | Ireland--Social conditions--19th century | Ballads, English--Ireland

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First lines: Good people, I pray pay attention, / And listen to what I relate. Printed: Cork: [Catherine] Haly.

Emigration and immigration--Ireland | Ireland--History--19th century | Ireland--Social conditions--19th century

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First lines: As I went out a walking one morning in spring, / I heard a bird whistle, and a nightingale sing.In English and phonetic Irish.

Emigration and immigration--Ireland | Ireland--Social conditions--19th century | Ballads, English--Ireland

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First lines: Come all you men and women that live in Ireland / I hope you will pay attention to these few lives [sic] I pen.

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

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First lines: You muses nine with me combine, / And grant me some relief.

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

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First lines: One time I was'nt [sic] pleased at home, so I away did go, / With all my goods and chattel, unto Australia, O!

Emigration and immigration--Ireland | Australia--History--19th century | Ireland--Social conditions--19th century

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