Product Description
A treasure-house of tradition, a store of ballads, songs sung at firesides, poems recalling a noble past. A rich vein of fantasy, humour and romance, capturing the soul of a nation. A book for everyone who loves Ireland. If ever an anthology could be said to hold almost every classic Irish song and ballad , this is it.
Includes many classics like The Banks of My Own Lovely Lee, Slievnamon, Wearing of the Green, The West's Asleep, Boolavogue, I am Raftery, The Sash My Father Wore, and poems from Kavanagh, Moore, Austin Clarke, Padraic Colum .
Almost every classic Irish song or verse that can be named is included. Organised by theme.
HEAVY foxing to the inside front covers, intermittent foxing ( orange/brown age spots to text block internally also, Published by Ward River Press, Dublin, 1984.
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