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the song itself has no history—are given in "The Life of Curren,"by his son W. H. Curran. That very popular song u Rory O'More," written and composed by Samuel Lover, was the out-come of a desire on the part of the author to supply a really good humourous song at a time when such effusions were not of high merit. He tells the story himself. "From an early period I had felt that Irish comic songs (so called) were but too generally coarse and vulgar—de-void of that mixture of fun and feeling so strongly blended in the Irish character—that a pig and a poker, expletive oaths, ' hurroos' and ' whack fol de rols' made the staple of most Irish comic songs; and having expressed this opinion in a company where the subject was discussed, I was met with that taunting question which some-times supplies the place of argument, viz.: ' Could you do better ?' I said I would try; and *Rory O'More' was the answer. Its popularity was immediate and extensive; so much so that on the day of her Majesty Queen Victoria's coronation every band along the line of pro-cession to Westminster Abbey played ' Rory O'More' during some part of the day, and, finally, it was the air the band of the Life Guards played as they escorted her Majesty into the park on her return to Buckingham Palace. Being
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