Titles:
Battle of the Navvies
First Lines:
We burnt the Bully Beggarman, for him our scorn expressed
Themes:
Migrant labor - Irish
Titles:
The navigators
First Lines:
All you that delight in the railway making
Themes:
Railways
Migrant labor - Irish
Titles:
The Irish excavator
Answer to Dublin bay!
First Lines:
The waves were rough with the tempest blast
If you will listen to my song, d [sic] will not detain you long
If you will listen to my song, I will not detain you long
Subjects:
Dublin (Ireland)
Themes:
Shipwreck
Migrant labor - Irish
Titles:
A trip to the harvest
First Lines:
The antelope, it's she can cope
Subjects:
Ireland
Themes:
Emigration
Migrant labor - Irish
Titles:
Boys that carry the hod
The boys that carry the hod
First Lines:
I am an Irish boy so friskey
I am an Irish boy so frisky
Themes:
Migrant labor - Irish
Titles:
When Mc.Guiness gets a job
First Lines:
My name is Mick Mc.Guiness I'm a labourer to my trade
Themes:
Migrant labor - Irish
Titles:
The boys of Ballinamore
First Lines:
Come all you young Irishmen that are inclined to roam
Themes:
Migrant labor - Irish
Titles:
A new comical song called the Dashing navygator
I remember I remember
I remember, I remember
I remember - I remember
The dashing navigator
First Lines:
If you'll listen to my song I will not detain you long
If you listen to my song I will not detain you long
I remember -- I remember
I remember, - I remember
I remember - I remember
I remember, I remember
Themes:
Migrant labor - Irish
Titles:
Billy O'Rook's the boy, sir
Billy O'Rooke's the boy sir
Bily [sic] O'Rookes the boy sir
Billy O'Rook[e] the boy
Billy O'Rooke the boy
Billy O'Rooke
Billy O'Rooke's the boy, sir
First Lines:
I greased my brogues and cut my stick
I greased my broughs and cut my sti[ck]
I greased my brougues and cut my stick
I greas'd my brogues and cut my stick
I greased my broughs and cut my stick
Twas in the sweet town of Latram I first got my name
'Twas in the sweet town of Latram I first got my name
Subjects:
Ireland
Themes:
Migrant labor - Irish
Fighting
Titles:
Boys of Erin the green
First Lines:
You true-hearted sons of Hibernia
Themes:
Migrant labor - Irish
Imprint Names: s.n.
Imprint Locations: s.l.
Notes: The illustration is from a broken block; see 2806 c.8(133) for the full print.
Title: The Irishman now going to America
First Line: When we came to sweet Philadelphia
Themes: Migrant labor - Irish
Imprint Names: s.n.
Imprint Locations:
s.l.
Title: The palentine's daughter
First Line: As I was going thro' Thomastown, as Phoebus was a dawn'g
Themes: Migrant labor - Irish
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations: [s.l.]
Notes: The illustration is signed: Lee
Series Identifier: 79
Title: The navigators
First Line: All you that delight in the railway making
Themes: Railways , Migrant labor - Irish
Imprint Names: Hodges, E.M.A.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1846 and 1854
Imprint: Hodges, Printer, (from the late I. Pitt's) Wholesale Toy Warehouse, 31, [Dudley] Street, 7 Dials
Notes: Harding B 11(1497) is another impression.
Title: Have you seen my pussey
First Line: O I have lost my cat, where can he be straying
Tune: Have you seen my sister
Title: Bily [sic] O'Rookes the boy sir
First Line: I greased my broughs and cut my sti[ck]
Themes: Migrant labor - Irish
Imprint Names: Hodges, E.M.A.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1846 and 1854
Notes: Harding B 11(1498) is another impression.
Title: Have you seen my pussey
First Line: O I have lost my cat, where can he be straying
Tune: Have you seen my sister
Title: Bily [sic] O'Rookes the boy sir
First Line: I greased my broughs and cut my sti[ck]
Themes: Migrant labor - Irish
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations: [s.l.]
Series Identifier: 728
Title: I don't mean to tell you her name
First Line: Where grow the sweetest of flowers
Title: The boys that carry the hod
First Line: I am an Irish boy so friskey
Themes: Migrant labor - Irish
Imprint Names: Armstrong, M.
Imprint Locations: Hexham
Date c.1841
Imprint: Armstrong, Printer, Hexham
Title: A trip to the harvest
First Line: The antelope, it's she can cope
Tune: Betsy Baker
Notes: Verse and prose
Subjects: Ireland
Themes: Emigration , Migrant labor - Irish
Imprint Names: The Poet's box
Imprint Locations: Glasgow
Date 1864
Imprint: ... the Poet's box, 6 St Andrew's lane, Glasgow
Title: Battle of the Navvies
First Line: We burnt the Bully Beggarman, for him our scorn expressed
Tune: Battle of the Diamond
Themes: Migrant labor - Irish
Imprint Names: The Poet's box
Imprint Locations: Glasgow
Date 1871
Imprint: ... the Poet's box ...
Title: Boys that carry the hod
First Line: I am an Irish boy so frisky
Themes: Migrant labor - Irish
Imprint Names: Livsey, J.
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date 18--
Imprint: Printed by J. Livsey, 12, Whittle-street, Manchester
Title: Dolly Dixon
First Line: I'm Robin the ploughboy fro Saddleworth come
Themes: Fairs
Title: Navvy on the line
First Line: I am a navy [sic] bo[l]d, that has tramp'd the country round, sir
Themes: Migrant labor - Irish
Imprint Names: Pearson, T.
Imprint Locations: Manchester
Date between 1850 and 1899
Imprint: T. Pearson, Printer, 6, Chadderton Street, Oldham Road, Manchester
Series Identifier: 633
Title: The boys of Ballanmore
First Line: Come all you young Irishmen, that are inclined to roam
Themes: Migrant labor - Irish
Title: The knickerbocker line
First Line: My love she is tailoress, a tailores [sic] by trade
Imprint Names: Hoggett, T.
Imprint Locations: Durham
Date between 1816 and 1843
Imprint: T. Hoggett, Printer, Market Place, Durham
Title: Billy O'Rooke's the boy sir
First Line: I greased my brogues and cut my stick
Themes: Migrant labor - Irish
Title: Bessy of Dromore
First Line: 'Twas on a summer's morning I rov'd for recreation
Subjects: Newcastle (England)
Themes: Pastoral
Imprint Names: Brereton, P.
Imprint Locations: Dublin
Date c.1867
Imprint: P. Brereton, Printer 1 Lr Exchange St Dublin
Title: The Irish excavator
First Line: If you will listen to my song, d [sic] will not detain you long
Themes: Migrant labor - Irish
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations:
[s.l.]
Title: Billy O Rooke's the boy
First Line: I greas'd my brogues and cut my stick
Themes: Migrant labor - Irish
Imprint Names: The Poet's box
Imprint Locations: Glasgow
Date between 1849 and 1880
Imprint: ... the Poet's Box ... Saturday, Aug. 6, 1870.
Title: Boys of Erin the green
First Line: You true-hearted sons of Hibernia
Themes: Migrant labor - Irish
