A lamentation on the fate of Thomas F. Burke : Who was sentenced to be hanged on the 29th of May, 1867.
[Dublin? : s.n.,
1867]
Burke (or Bourke) was sentenced to death for his part in the Rising in April [1867]. This was later commuted to life imprisonment on the intervention of the President of the United States and the Irish Cardinal Cullen of Dublin. However, he was released in 1871, returning to the United States where he died in 1889.
First line reads: You married men and women all.
In one column with an illustration at the foot.
Bourke, Thomas, Colonel
Ballads, English
Fenians
Prisoners
Trials (Treason)