Imprint Names: Harkness, J.
Imprint Locations: Preston
Date between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: Harkness, Printer, 121, Church Street, Preston
Series Identifier: 3
Title: What are you at? What are you after?
First Line: I came to town the other day
Title: The boys of Kilkenny
First Line: Oh the boys of Kilkenny, are brave roving blades
Subjects: Ireland
Imprint Names: Ordoyno, W.
Imprint Locations: Nottingham
Imprint: Printed and Sold Wholesale and Retail by W. Ordoyno, Newton Street, Nottingham
Notes: Two titles on an uncut sheet
Title: The boatmen dance
First Line: De boatmen dance, de boatmen sing
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: Unhappy Jeremiah
First Line: I'd often heard a married life
Themes: Marriage
Title: Old Adam was a gentleman
First Line: Old Adam was the first man form'd
Themes: Adam (Biblical figure)
Title: From thee, Eliza, I must go
First Line: From thee, Eliza, I must go
Title: Four and ninepenny tile
First Line: List my friends all around
Title: Sich a getting up stairs
First Line: At Kentuck last night a party met
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: The watchman
First Line: Good night, good night, my dearest
Title: The mistletoe bough
First Line: The mistletoe bough hung in the castle hall
Authors: Bayly, N.T.H. (Nathaniel Thomas Haynes), 1797-1839
Title: The bridal ring
First Line: I dreamed last night of our earlier days
Title: Thy smile was sweet
First Line: Thy smile was sweet, thine eye was bright
Title: Nix my dolly
First Line: In a box of the stone jug I was born
Authors: Ainsworth, W.H.
Themes: Crime - 19th century , Slang
Title: Rory O'More
First Line: Young Rory O'More courted Kathleen Bawn
Authors: Lover, Samuel, 1797-1868
Title: Maid of Llnanweylly [sic]
First Line: I have no sheep on the mountains
Title: She sat within the abbey walls
First Line: A maiden was there from her father's halls
Title: Leather breeches
First Line: Although a simple clown
Title: The poacher
First Line: When I was bound a 'prentice
Themes: Poaching
Title: The banks of the blue Moselle
First Line: When the glow worm gilds the elfin flow'r
Title: Maid of Judah
First Line: No more shall the children of Judah sing
Themes: Jews
Title: How, when and where
First Line: Oh, tell me when and tell me where
Title: How sweet those merry bells are ringing
First Line: How sweet those merry bell [sic] are ringing
Themes: Bells
Title: Axe my eye
First Line: I deals in costermongery
Title: Boys of Kilkenny
First Line: Oh, the boys of Killkenny are brave roaring blades
Subjects: Ireland
Title: Susan of the vale
First Line: Oh! give me but the lass I saw
Title: My son Tom
First Line: My son's a youth of talents rare
Title: The vesper bells are ringing
First Line: The vesper bells are ringing
Title: His country and his friends
First Line: What if the sailor boldly goes
Themes: Sailors
Title: John Bull and the taxes
First Line: Here is lines about the times
Themes: Taxation
Title: Marked you her beaming eye
First Line: Mark'd you her eye of heavenly blue
Title: Holy friar
First Line: I am a friar of orders grey
Authors: O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833
Title: The young English gentleman
First Line: I'll sing you a prime new song
Notes: A parody on The fine old English gentleman
Title: Isle of beauty
First Line: Shades of evening close not o'er us
Title: Foggy dew
First Line: What shepherd was like me so blest
Title: Yankee Doodle
First Line: My daddy to my mammy said
Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: Pitts, Printer, Toy and Marble Warehouse, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials
Title: The mermaid
First Line: On Friday morning as we did set sail
Themes: Shipwreck
Title: Dark-hair'd girl
First Line: My dark-hair'd girl thy ringlets deck
Title: The boys of Kilkenny
First Line: Oh the boys of Kilkenny are brave roaring blades
Subjects: Ireland
Imprint Names: Such, H.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1863 and 1885
Imprint: London: Printed & Published, by H. Such, 177, Union Street, Boro' S.E.
Series Identifier: 299
Title: Paddy is the boy
First Line: It's some years ago, I very well know
Subjects: Ireland
Title: The boys of Kilkenny
First Line: The boys of Kilkenny are brave roaring blades
Subjects: Ireland
Title: What can the matter be
First Line: At sixteen years old you could get little good of me
Subjects: Ireland
Themes: Catholic Church
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Imprint Names: Dalton, W. , Stewart, B.
Imprint Locations: York , Carlisle
Imprint: Sold by B. Stewart, Botchergate, Caelisle [sic]; and of Wm Dalton, York
Title: The boys of Kilkenny
First Line: The boys of Kilkenny are brave roving blades
Subjects: Ireland