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FAMOUS SONGS
known celebrity in that line of composition ren-dered it probable, and he continued to the end of his short and eccentric career of life to claim the authorship with confidence/* The song is to be found in extenso in " Irish Minstrelsy" (1894), edited by H. Halliday Sparling.
The names of the author and composer of that well-known drinking- song, the " Cruiskin Lawn" (u Little Jug*') are lost to us. It originated probably among the convivial circles of Dublin, though based upon a much older lyric. It is not easy to say whether the tune is Irish or not; it may have come over with the Danes. Boucicault utilized it in the " Colleen Bawn/' and so did Sir Julius Benedict in the " Lily of TKjllarney."
In a note to the words of the " Shan Van Voght," the editor of " Irish Minstrelsy" (1894) says: "This is one of the many names for Ireland —An t-sean bean bochd—the poor old woman. The song, of which there are many versions, was composed In 1797, the period when the French fleet arrived in Bantry Bay." It is a ballad of anonymous production. All who are acquainted with the stirring stanzas can easily imagine what an effect the song would have on a restless, dissatisfied people, and it is a wonder that the effects of its continually being chanted
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