Irish Transport, The

DESCRIPTION: "In the county of Limerick, near the town of Ramshorn," the singer was born, but "I could not behave," so he is transported. He would think himself free despite his chains were his Polly with him. When his sentence is over, he will return to her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1852 (Bodleian broadside Firth b.26(184))
KEYWORDS: love separation transportation return
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland, pp. 108-109, "The Irish Transport" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Hugh Anderson, _Farewell to Judges and Juries: The Broadside Ballad and Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788-1868_, Red Rooster Press, 2000, p. 194, "The Irish Transport" (1 text, with a tune on p. 567)
Roud #21203
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.26(184), S. Russell (Birmingham), 1840-1851; also Firth b.25(504), "The Irish Transport," W. Jackson and Son (Birmingham), c. 1860; also Firth b.34(260)=Harding B 11(3269), "Irish Transport," E. M. A. Hodges (London), 1846-1854
File: AnFa108

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