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Author: Moira O'Neill (fl. 1900) [pseudonym]

Agnes (Nesta) Shakespeare Higginson
Agnes (Nesta) Shakespeare Higginson Skrine

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Songs of the Glens of Antrim

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At Sea ('Tis the long blue Head o' Garron) - C. Stanford
Birds (Sure an' maybe ye've heard the storm-thrush) (from Songs of the Glens of Antrim) - C. Edwards
Cuttin' rushes (Oh maybe it was yesterday, or fifty years ago) - C. Stanford
Denny's Daughter (Denny's daughter stood a minute in the field I be to pass) - C. Stanford
Denny's daughter stood a minute in the field I be to pass
C. Stanford: Denny's Daughter

He was born in Ballytearim where there's little work to do
C. Stanford: The Boy from Ballytearim

I mind the day (I'd mind the day I'd wish I was a saygull flyin' far) - C. Stanford
I'd mind the day I'd wish I was a saygull flyin' far
C. Stanford: I mind the day

Lookin' Back (Wather's o' Moyle an' the white gulls flyin') - C. Stanford
Lough-a-reem-a! Lough-a-reem-a
C. Stanford: The Fairy Lough

Oh maybe it was yesterday, or fifty years ago
C. Stanford: Cuttin' rushes

Sea wrack (The wrack was dark an' shiny where it floated in the sea) - H. Harty
Sure a terrible time I was out o' the way
C. Stanford: The Sailor Man

Sure an' maybe ye've heard the storm-thrush (from Songs of the Glens of Antrim)
C. Edwards: Birds

The Boy from Ballytearim (He was born in Ballytearim where there's little work to do) - C. Stanford
The Fairy Lough (Lough-a-reem-a! Lough-a-reem-a) - C. Stanford
The Sailor Man (Sure a terrible time I was out o' the way) - C. Stanford
The wrack was dark an' shiny where it floated in the sea
H. Harty: Sea wrack

'Tis the long blue Head o' Garron
C. Stanford: At Sea

Wather's o' Moyle an' the white gulls flyin'
C. Stanford: Lookin' Back