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Francis James Child collected the words to over 300 British folk ballads. Illustration by Arthur Rackham of Child Ballad 26, "The Twa Corbies"Child's collection was not the first of its kind; there had been many less scholarly collections of English and Scottish ballads, particularly from Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) onwards. [4]
The ballad, though historically inaccurate, recounts the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last large-scale encounter between the Scottish and English armies. 173: Mary Hamilton: Mary Hamilton, servant to Queen of the Scots, Mary Stuart, has an affair with the king and becomes pregnant. Out of guilt, she casts her newborn into the sea.
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Sport, play and fighting. " Bold Thady Quill " – a Cork song written about 1895 by Johnny Tom Gleeson (1853–1924) [ 101 ] "The Bold Christy Ring" – song about Cork hurler Christy Ring to the tune of Bold Thady Quill. "The Contender" – song by Jimmy Macarthy about 1930s Irish boxer Jack Doyle, recorded by Christy Moore.
List of the Child Ballads. Little John a Begging. Lizie Lindsay. Lizie Wan. The Lochmaben Harper. Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet. Lord Lovel. Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight. The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward.
Contents. Wikipedia:WikiProject Roots music/Child Ballads/Child Ballads complete index. published his 1860 collection in 8 volumes. published a second collection in 10 volumes between 1882 and 1898. The have been numbered from 1 to 305.
The Children's Hour (poem) Print of Thomas Buchanan Read 's portrait of Longfellow's three daughters. " The Children's Hour " is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in the September 1860 edition of The Atlantic Monthly.
Martin Rattler; or, a Boy's Adventures in the Forests of Brazil, R. M. Ballantyne (1860) The Gorilla Hunters, R. M. Ballantyne (1861) Tom Brown at Oxford, Thomas Hughes (1861) Countess Kate, Charlotte M. Yonge (1862) Melchior's Dream and Other Tales, Juliana Horatia Ewing (1862/1885) St. Winifred's, or, The World of School, Frederic W. Farrar ...