First lines: You bucksome young fellows I hope you'll draw neer [sic] / Concerning the fashions I will let you hear.

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

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First lines: 'Twas of a damsel both fair and handsome, / Those lines are true as I have been told. Printed: Dublin: [John F.] Nugent.

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

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First lines: I am a young lover that's sorely oppress'd / Entrall'd by a fair one, I could find no rest,.Woodcut ornament signed: O'Keeffe. Printed: Cork: [Catherine] Haly.

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

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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: Farewell my dearest henry since you to sea must go, / To plough the raging ocean and face the daring foe.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--Social conditions--19th century | Man-woman relationships

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First lines: My parents reared me teederly [sic], I being their eldest son, / It's little was their notion, I would follow the fife and drum.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--History--19th century | Man-woman relationships

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First lines: I once had a sweetheart I loved as my life / I had no intention but make her my own. Printed: Dublin: [John F.] Nugent.

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

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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: In London city there lived a lady, / Who was possessed of a vast estate.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--History--19th century | Man-woman relationships

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First lines: It was early, early by the break of day,/ Down by these green fields I chanced to stray.

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

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First lines: You sweet pretty lasses where ever you be / Now just pay attention and listen to me.

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

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First lines: Young Willie Read he was by trade, / A weaver bold lived on the Coombe. Printed: Dublin: [John F.] Nugent.

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

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