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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 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  [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  [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 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 Dvblin [sic]

Ballad - Roud Number: V17415

Title: Champagne Chalie [sic]

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

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 Young lady's lamentation for the loss of her true love

First Line: It was early early all in the spring

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Brereton 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin

Notes:  2806 c.9(18) is another issue.

Ballad - Roud Number: V35090

Title: A new song on The hireing of the servants

First Line: Good people all attention pay unto those l[i]nes that I relate

Subjects:  Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896

Themes:  Hiring fairs ,  Prices

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin

Notes:  2806 b.9(66) is another issue. See Johnson Ballads 2154b for the caption of the 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: V35090

Title: A new song on The hireing of the servants

First Line: Good people all attention pay unto those l[i]nes that I relate

Subjects:  Gladstone, W.E. (William Ewart), 1809-1896

Themes:  Hiring fairs ,  Prices

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brefeton [sic], Printer 1, Lr Exchange St Dublin

Notes:  Johnson Ballads 2235a is another impression.

Ballad - Roud Number: 13468

Title: A new song on the [I]rish harvests triumph over the English

First Line: Come all you true bred Irishmen that are enclind [sic] to roam

Themes:  Irish - England ,  Migrant labor - Irish

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P. Brereton printer 1 Lr Exchang [sic] St

Ballad

Title: Lines on the expected testimonial of his Grace the late much lamented most revd Doctor O'Connor Bishop of Saldis

First Line: It is true he is gone now the noble & faithful

Authors:  Sadler, Joseph

Subjects:  O'Connor, Dr.

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Brereton Printer, 55 Cooke Street

Notes:  Harding B 26(543) is another edition.

Ballad - Roud Number: V8814

Title: A new song called the Publican's lament

First Line: As I was walking up Pimlico way

Themes:  Taverns ,  Temperance

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

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

Notes:  Harding B 26(254) is another edition.

Ballad - Roud Number: V1919

Title: A new song on the hiring of the servants

First Line: You young men & maidens draw near for awile [sic]

Authors:  O'Sullivan, Patrick

Themes:  Hiring fairs

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Brereton Priuter [sic] 1 Lr Exchange Street Lublin [sic]

Ballad - Roud Number: 398

Title: A much admired song call'd Carroline [sic] of Edinborough town

First Line: Come all young men and maidens atend [sic] unto my ryme [sic]

Subjects:  Edinburgh (Scotland)

Themes:  Seduction and abandonment ,  Elopement

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

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

Notes:  Harding B 26(384) is another issue.

Ballad - Roud Number: V20199

Title: A new song on lovely Katey of Liskehan

First Line: You gentle muses I pray excuse me

Authors:  Ahern, C.T.

Subjects:  Ireland

Themes:  Agricultural laborers

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

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

Notes:  Johnson Ballads 2156b 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, 1, Lr, Exchauge [sic], St, Dublin

Notes:  Harding B 26(240) is another edition.

Ballad

Title: Hagertys ball

First Line: Its near Bllakale [sic] where the lads they are friskey

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Notes:  Harding B 26(210) is another issue Harding B 26(212) is another edition.

Ballad - Roud Number: V17508

Title: A new song on the general tapation [sic] of our days

First Line: Come neighbonrs [sic] draw near till I tell you a tale

Themes:  Taxation

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Brereton Printer 1 Lr Exchange St

Notes:  2806 b.9(148) is another edition.

Ballad - Roud Number: V2042

Title: A new song entitled The emigrants love for his native land

First Line: There is a little spot of earth

Attributation: Revised by Edward O'Connor

Authors:  O'Connor, Edward

Subjects:  Ireland

Themes:  Emigration - Irish

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Imprint: P Brereton 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin

Ballad - Roud Number: V4231

Title: The game of cards

First Line: You true sons of Erin draw near me

Subjects:  Ireland

Themes:  Fenians

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Notes:  2806 b.9(68) is another issue with a different illustration.

Ballad - Roud Number: V2093

Title: A new song call'd the Gay old hag

First Line: Will you come a boating my gay old hag

Subjects:  Dublin (Ireland)

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: 141

Title: A new song call'd The golden glove

First Line: A wealthy young squire live'd in Thomastown clere [sic]

Themes:  Social status ,  Transvestism ,  Women hunters

Imprint Names:  Brereton, P.

Imprint Locations:  Dublin

Date  c.1867

Notes:  2806 c.7(38) is another issue.

Ballad - Roud Number: 9520

Title: The jacket green

First Line: When I was a maiden fair and youhg [sic]

Subjects:  Ireland

Themes:  Soldiers