Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List

'Come, let in welcome all those friends

That now around us stand...'

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U140/E/008

Date:

?1850s

Level : item Title:

Portion of printed poem/song lyric

Extent: 1p Scope and Content: Portion of printed poem or song lyric, no title (marked 'James D'Arcy, Morgan O'Connell, Thomas O'Donnell'). Religious/biblical subject.

'Of mans first disobedience

and the fruit of that forbidden tree...'

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U140/E/009

Date:

?1850s

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Text of 2 poems/songs

Extent: 7pp Scope and Content: MS. text of 2 poems/ songs

1. 'The Rose of Grannabraugher, Tune through Erin's Isle'; (Gurranabraher, northside of Cork City)

"I like 'The Lily of The Brook'

But there , on Grannabraugher

A brown rose, on its breezy bright rock

I loved, when first I saw her..." (From verse 1 of 13)

2. 'There's a Kind Heart'

"O' there's a kind heart dwelling over the Lee

As breathless in sorrow, as dancing in glee

No fashion can curb it, no cold custom freeze...'

(From verse 1 of 9)

U140 Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List

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