Broadside Ballads Online

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton Printer 1 Lr Exchange St Dubl[in]

Ballad

Title: A new song in praise of the Arklow fithermen [sic]

First Line: Come all ye sons of Erin atend [sic] both young and old

Attributation: By James Flynn poet and singer

Authors:  Flynn, James

Performers:  Flynn, James

Themes:  Fishermen

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton, Printer, 1, Lr Exchange, Street, Dublin

Ballad - Roud Number: V30227

Title: A nnw [sic] song in praise of the women

First Line: All you gallant men I hope you will atend [sic]

Themes:  Women

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton, Printer, 1 Lr Exchange, St, Dublin

Notes:  2806 b.9(124) is another edition.

Ballad - Roud Number: V2916

Title: The Rathmines road

First Line: Boys and girls how are you now I hope your [sic] very well

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Brereton Printer 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin

Ballad - Roud Number: 2676

Title: Teh [sic] sailors grve [sic]

First Line: Our bark was far -- far from the lahd [sic]

Themes:  Sailors

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: Bereton [sic] Printer 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin

Ballad - Roud Number: V3143

Title: A new song call'd The soldier and his darling

First Line: One morning very early as I roved alone

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton, Printer, 1, Lr Exchange, Street, Dublin

Notes:  2806 b.9(86) is another issue.

Ballad - Roud Number: V1362

Title: A sorrowful lamentation on the execution of Patrick Power ... for the unnatural murder of his father

First Line: Atend [sic] each feeling Christian who now my fate bewail

Subjects:  Ireland

Themes:  Murder - 19th century ,  Executions - 19th century

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Brereton Printer 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin

Ballad - Roud Number: 4882

Title: Up in a balloon

First Line: One night I went up in a baioon [sic]

Themes:  Drunkenness ,  Ballooning ,  Dreams

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton Printer 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin

Ballad

Title: A new song call'd the Vision in Col Burke's cell

First Line: Come all you Irish patriot's

Themes:  Home Rule - Ireland

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Rereton [sic] Printer 55 Cooke St Dublin

Notes:  Slip. Harding B 26(677) is another edition.

Ballad

Title: The whole acount [sic] of our preists [sic] and nuns who was masacrea'd [sic] in Syria

First Line: Good Christians pay atention [sic] to what I now unfold

Themes:  Turkish massacres

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton, Printer, 1 Lr, Exchange, St, Dublin

Notes:  Johnson Ballads 2146b is another issue.

Ballad

Title: A new song call'd William and Jane on the banks of Clyde

First Line: One fine summers morning as I went a walking

Subjects:  Clyde River (Scotland)

Themes:  Lovers reunited

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton, Printer, 1, Lr, Exchange, -St, Dublin

Notes:  Harding B 26(688) is another edition.

Ballad

Title: A new song call'd Wire in and get your teapot

First Line: Wire in & get your teapot you know it's all the go

Themes:  Shopping

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin

Notes:  See Johnson Ballads 2154b for the caption of the first illustration, which reads: \"That's a good cheese, shopman! send me a quarter of a pound, and let your boy bring the bill.\" [below] Why is a drawn tooth like a thing forgot? Because it's out of the head.

Ballad - Roud Number: V7082

Title: The young girls dress caps

First Line: Come all you young fellows I hope you'l draw near

Themes:  Fashions

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton, Printer, 1, Lr, Exchange, St, Dublin

Notes:  2806 b.9(103) is another edition.

Ballad - Roud Number: 188

Title: A new song call'd The young squire or The counsellor outwitted

First Line: Its of a counsellor I write who had a handsome comely daughter

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  [1869]

Notes:  2806 b.9(89) is another issue.

Ballad

Title: A new song on the pasing [sic] the Church bill

First Line: You sons and fair daughters of Erin's green isle

Themes:  Church of Ireland - Establishment and disestablishment

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton, Printer, 1, Lr, Exchange, St, Dublin

Notes:  Harding B 26(383) is another issue.

Ballad - Roud Number: V20199

Title: A new song on lovely Keaty [sic] of Liskehan

First Line: You gentle muses I pray excuse me

Authors:  Ahern, C.T.

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Notes:  Harding B 26(131) is another edition.

Ballad - Roud Number: V8086

Title: A dialouge [sic] between a schoolmast[er] & laboureer [sic]

First Line: As I walk'd out on a summer's morning

Themes:  Social status

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  [1869]

Imprint: P Brereton Printer 1 Lr Exchange Street Dublin

Notes:  The illustration is printed upside down; it is part of the royal coat of arms.

Ballad - Roud Number: V30474

Title: The Church bill and downfall of bribery

First Line: You sons of the shamrock atend [sic] to my dittty [sic]

Tune: Bundle and go

Authors:  Bennett, W.C. (William Cox), 1820-1895

Themes:  Church of Ireland - Establishment and disestablishment

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton, Printer 1, Lr Exchange, St. Dublin

Ballad - Roud Number: V21024

Title: William O'Brian of Tipperary and the mayjors [sic] daughter

First Line: You loyal hearted Irishmen attend unto my tale

Themes:  Irish - U.S.A. ,  American Civil War, 1861-1865

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Brereton 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin

Ballad - Roud Number: V7466

Title: John O'Dwyer-a-Glana

First Line: Ohe [sic] morning as I started

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton, Printer, 1, Lr, Exchange, St, Dublin

Notes:  Harding B 19(125) is another issue.

Ballad - Roud Number: V21527

Title: A discuscion [sic] betwen [sic] a Roman Catholick girl and a Protestant gentleman near Ardee co Louth

First Line: As I rove'd out one eveing [sic] in the pleosant [sic] month of June

Themes:  Religious controversy - Ireland

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton Printer 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin

Ballad - Roud Number: V17609

Title: A new song call'd The old mans complaint of his landlord

First Line: Good people lend an ear sa's [sic] the poor old man

Themes:  Land tenure - Ireland

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton, Printer, 1, Lr Exchange st Dublin

Ballad - Roud Number: V1819

Title: A much admired song call'd The lovers of Derry

First Line: You lovers all atention [sic] pay the truth I will lay down

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Brereton Printer, 1, Lr Exchange St

Ballad - Roud Number: V3474

Title: A new song call'd The cup of tea

First Line: Come all you neibours [sic] draw near til [sic] I tell you a tale

Themes:  Adultery ,  Domestic relations ,  Tea

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton Printer, 3, Goodmans Lane Off Patrick's, Close, Dublin

Ballad - Roud Number: V3557

Title: A new song called Jig light Sue

First Line: In Clonakilty shure

Tune: Hop light Loo

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Brereton Printer 1 Lr Exchange St Dvblin [sic]

Ballad - Roud Number: V17415

Title: Champagne Chalie [sic]

First Line: I've seen a deal of gaiety throughout my noisy life