Songs of Irish rebellion : Irish political street ballads and rebel songs, 1780-1900 / Georges Denis Zimmermann.
| Author/creator | Zimmermann, Georges Denis, 1930- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Second edition. |
| Publication Info | Dublin, Ireland ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, ©2002. |
| Description | 342 pages : music ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Irish political street ballads and rebel songs, 1780-1900 |
| Series | Four Courts history classics Four Courts history classics. ^A523828 |
| Contents | Blind violence and vain hopes -- Popular nationalism and unsuccessful risings -- Political realism and blood sacrifice -- Romantic patriotism and literary imitations of street balladry -- The form of the songs -- Part 2. A selection of Irish political songs and ballads. The blackbird ; The volunteers' march ; Ireland's glory ; Freedom triumphant ; Plant, plant the tree ; Blaris moor ; The shan van vocht ; Edward ; Dunlavin green ; Come all you warriors ; Some treat of David ; Billy Byrne of Ballymanus ; The song of prosperous ; Captain Doorley and the boyne ; Michael Boylan ; General Munroe ; Rody MacCorly ; Rouse, Hibernians ; The croppy boy (I) ; The rambler from Clare ; Green on my cape: the wearing of the green ; The suit of green ; Bold McDermott ; The banished defender ; My Emmet's no more ; The patriot queen ; Erin's green shore ; The young man's dream ; The new Granuwale ; The green linnet (Napoleon) ; The royal eagle ; The new bunch of Loughero: the bonny bunch of roses, O ; The banishment of Patrick Brady ; Owen Rooney's lamentation ; The battle that was fought in the north ; The lamentation of James O'Sullivan ; A discussion between church and chapel ; The sorrowful lamentation of Denis Mahony ; The noble ribbon boys ; The Castlepollard massacre ; The Barrymore tithe victory ; Slieve na mon ; Fergus O'Connor and independence ; The grey horse: the grey mare ; The peeler and the goat ; The ass's complaint: the ass and the orangeman's daughter ; Dicky in the Yeomen ; Billy's downfall ; The Saxon shilling ; Glorious repeal meeting held at Tara Hill ; The memory of the dead ; The croppy boy (II) ; The sorrowful lamentation of those poor convicts ; Erin's king, or Daniel is no more ; The Kerry eagle ; Erin's green linnet ; The emigrant's farewell to Donegal ; A new song on the rotten potatoes ; Mitchel's address ; Granua's lament for the loss of her blackbird Mitchel ; The escape of Meagher ; A lament written on the dreadful massacre of Sixmilebridge ; Patrick Sheehan ; The lamentation of two Cormacks ; McKenna's dream ; The Irish harvest men's triumph ; Ireland's liberty tree ; The general fox chase ; The rising of the moon ; Rossa's farewell ; Burke's dream ; The smashing of the van ; A lamentation on Allen, Larkin and O'Brien ; God save Ireland ; Rory of the hill ; Bold Jack O'Donoghue ; Poor old Granuaile ; Harvey Duff ; The land league's advice ; A new song on Michael Davitt ; The blackbird of Avondale ; The shooting of Bailey ; The green linnet (Davitt) ; Lamentable lines on J. Brady and D. Curley ; Skin-the-goat's curse on Carey ; Patrick O'Donnell ; A new song entitled the Kerry eviction ; Moonlight attack on Curtin's house ; We won't hear our leader run down ; Father Murphy of the county Wexford (Boulavogue) ; The last moments of Robert Emmet (bold Robert Emmet) ; John McBride's brigade -- Part 3. The songs of the "loyal" party. Lisnagade ; Croppies lie down ; The tree of liberty ; Dolly's brae ; The grand mystic order ; The Aughalee heroes ; The murder of McBriars ; A new loyal song against home rule. |
| Abstract | Ireland has long been noted for a proliferation of songs revealing the predicament of simple people caught in difficult historical situations, giving vent to nationalist--or loyalist--feelings, or inciting to rebellion. This book is based on the study of thousands of Irish broadside ballads and of hundreds of songbooks printed between the last decades of the eighteenth century and approximately 1900. It examines the themes, the symbols, the recurrent text forms and the music of songs that are representative of different periods, from Jacobite survivals and through the age of the United Irishmen, the Napoleonic era, the Tithe War, and the time of O'Connell, the Young Ireland movement and 1848, the Famine, the Fenian episode, the age of Parnell and of the Land War, to the partly new nationalism that was developing at the end of the century. Songs of the Orange Order are included in this survey. Efforts have been made to characterize the different kinds of creators of those ballads, their modes of distribution, the performers techniques and the reactions of audiences. One hundred song texts are given in full, often with variants and tunes. There is also an extensive bibliography. First published in the late 1960s, the book has been recognized as a standard work in the field. This edition includes a new preface that places the work into perspective, takes notes of subsequent publications, and suggests further lines of research on an important historical and cultural phenomenon that affected many ordinary Irish people and influenced Irish writers in different ways. |
| General note | First published as Irish political street ballads and rebel songs. Geneva : La Sirène, 1966. |
| General note | Includes melodies with words. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-334) and indexes. |
| ISBN | 1851826297 |
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