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    A Grand Time: The Songs, Music and Dance of Newfoundland’s Cape Shore

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    A Grand Time: Song words and other resources

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    The Poets and Poetry of Munster, ed. John O’Daly, 1850 edition

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    Dusty Bluebells

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    Dusty Bluebells: Counting and Skipping

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    Dusty Bluebells: Yah Boo!

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    Dusty Bluebells: Riddles and More Rhymes

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    Dusty Bluebells: Songs, Ballads and Snatches

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    Dusty Bluebells: Round and Round, Up and Down, Out and In

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    Dusty Bluebells: May Queens and Mummery

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    Dusty Bluebells: Lulling and Lilting

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    All the days of his life: Eddie Butcher in his own words

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    Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society. The First Phase

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    Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society. Vol. 1

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    Come all ye / Derry Journal

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    Two good men and true / Jimmy McBride

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    The flower of Dunaff Hill / Jimmy McBride

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    My parents reared me tenderly / Jim McFarland and Jimmy McBride

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    Irish-American Song Book, 1900s

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    Denis Cox, Songs in Irish in Print, 1933

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    Shamrock, Rose and Thistle: Folk Singing in North Derry, 1981

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    Cnuasachd bheag amhrán 1-6 / An tAthair Pádruig Breathnach do chruinnigh

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    Music of the Gael : the ideal song book for Irish children. 1-3 / by Rev. P. A. Walsh

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    Raint amhrán. 1-4 / An tAthair Pádruig Breathnach do chruinnigh agus do chóirigh

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    Sídh-cheól. 1-2 / An tAthair Pádruig Breathnach do bhailigh agus do chuir i n-eagar

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    Songs of the Gael: a collection of Anglo-Irish songs and ballads, wedded to old traditional Irish airs [Series 1-4] / by an t-Athair Pádruig Breathnach

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    Nicholson Ballad Sheets, Belfast, 1800s & 1900s

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    Leslie Shepard Irish Ballad Sheets, 1800s–1900s

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    Popular Irish Sheet Music, 1900s

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    Versions of the Song ‘An Draighneán Donn’, 1789–1990

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    Colm Ó Lochlainn’s Claisceadal Songsheets, 1940s

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    Nationalist Songs on Sheet Music, early 1900s

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    Erin Remember 1916 & Other Songs from the Decade of Centenaries

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    Songsters by Nugent of Dublin, 20th Century

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    The Góilín Song Project: Balladsheets

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    Songs from Ballyvourney, Co Cork, 1913 & 1914

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    Lady Dufferin, Songs from the 19th Century

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    Brereton Ballad Sheets, Dublin, 19th Century

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    The Góilín Song Project

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    Songs from Denis McDaid and Jimmy Houten

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