Popular Songs of Ireland

Thomas Crofton Croker

Colburn, 1839 - Ballads, English - 340 pages

Contents

• St Patricks Arrival explanatory of the origin of the word Punch: 11
• St Patrick was a Gentleman: 19
• III St Patrick of Ireland my dear: 24
• St Patricks Day in Paris: 30
• THE SHAMROCK Introductory Observations: 32
• The Shamrock Cockade: 39
• The green little Shamrock of Ireland: 44
• THE POTATO Introductory Observations: 48
• The land of Potatoes O: 56
• The smiling Potatoes: 60
• WHISKY Introductory Observations: 65
• An Irishmans Christening: 70
• Love and Whisky: 72
• The Powers of Whisky: 74
• Erins Whisky: 76
• Rocks Poteen: 77
• The Glass of Whisky: 79
• A Sup of good Whisky: 83
• Bounce upon Bess: 86
• The Nightcap: 93
• Bumpers Bumpers flowing Bumpers: 95
• Ill never get Drunk any more: 97
• Barry of Macroom: 99
• The Merry Man: 102
• THE IRISH OAK Introductory Observations: 108
• The Sprig of Shillelah: 112
• Hail to the Oak the Irish Tree: 118
• Oh an Irishmans Heart is as stout as Shil lelah: 120
• LOCAL SONGS Introductory Observations: 122
• Provincial Characteristics: 128
• Sweet Avondu: 130
• Bannas Banks: 137
• The Groves of Blarney: 141
• O Blarney Castle my Darling: 149
• The Victorious Goalers of Carrigaline and Kil money: 161
• Corks own Town: 165
• XXXIII Judy MacCarthy of Fishamble Lane 166: 166
• Corks goodhumoured Faces: 172
• The Court of Conscience in Cork: 174
• The Groves of Blackpool descriptive of the re turn of the city of Cork Militia: 175
• The Court of Cahirass: 181
• The Doneraile Litany: 184
• Dublin after the Union: 191
• The Humours of Donnybrook Fair: 193
• GlashenGlora: 198
• Gougane Barra: 200
• Young Kate of Kilcummer: 205
• The Boys of Kilkenny: 206
• The Hermit of Killarney: 209
• The Kilruddery Hunt: 214
• The Praise of Kinsale: 227
• Kinsale versus Mallow: 229
• The River Lee: 232
• The Bells of Shandon: 234
• The Silvery Lee: 239
• The Praises of Limerick: 240
• Garryowen: 243
• The County of Limerick Buckhunt: 251
• Dear Mallow adieu: 256
• The Rakes of Mallow: 263
• Darling Neddeen: 264
• The Town of Passage: 268
• The Fair Maid of Passage: 275
• The Entrenchment of Ross: 277
• Shandrum Boggoon: 304
• Shannons flowery Banks: 307
• The Mayor of Waterfords Letter: 310
• The Praise of Waterford: 331

Popular passages

Page 234 - WITH deep affection And recollection I often think of Those Shandon bells, Whose sounds so wild would, In the days of childhood, Fling round my cradle Their magic spells. On this I ponder Where'er I wander, And thus grow fonder, Sweet Cork, of thee, — With thy bells of Shandon, That sound so grand on The pleasant waters Of the river Lee.

Page 236 - Of thy belfry, knelling Its bold notes free, Made the bells of Shandon Sound far more grand, on The pleasant waters Of the river Lee. I've heard bells tolling Old Adrian's Mole...

Page 143 - There is a stone there, that whoever kisses, Oh! he never misses to grow eloquent. 'Tis he may clamber to a lady's chamber, Or become a member of parliament: A clever spouter he'll sure turn out, or An out-and-outer, "to be let alone," Don't hope to hinder him, or to bewilder him; Sure he's a pilgrim from the Blarney stone!

Page 33 - ... and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast."*** The authors of this calamity reaped from it the expected fruits.

Page 220 - In seventeen hundred and forty and four, The fifth of December, I think, 'twas no more, At five in the morning by most of the clocks, We rode from Kilruddery in search of a fox.

Page 133 - Blacke-water, and the Liffar deep, Sad Trowis, that once his people over-ran, Strong Allo tombling from Slewlogher steep, And Mulla mine, whose waves I whilom taught to weep.

Page 225 - And on the broken pavement, here and there, Doth many a stinking sprat and herring lie; A brandy and tobacco shop is near, And hens, and dogs, and hogs, are feeding by : And here a sailor's jacket hangs to dry.

Page 202 - Still, still in those wilds might young liberty rally, And send her strong shout over mountain and valley, The star of the west might yet rise in its glory, And the land that was darkest be brightest in story.

Page 146 - Tis there the lake is, well stored with perches, And comely eels in the verdant mud; Besides the leeches, and groves of beeches, Standing in order for to guard the flood.

Page 271 - The town of Passage Is both large and spacious, And situated Upon the say. 'Tis nate and dacent, And quite adjacent To come from Cork On a summer's day ; There you may slip in To take a dipping, Foment the shipping That at anchor ride ; Or in a wherry Cross o'er the ferry To Carrigaloe, On the other side.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Popular Songs of Ireland
• Editor: Thomas Crofton Croker
• Compiled by: Thomas Crofton Croker
• Publisher: Colburn, 1839
• Original from: the New York Public Library
• Digitized: Dec 15, 2006
• Length: 340 pages