A new song called The Irish brigade in battle.
[Dublin? : s.n.,
1860?]
Air: Dream of Napoleon.
Dated from internal evidence - this ballad concerns the raising of an Irish Brigade by Archbishop Paul Cullen to fight in Italy for Pius IX and the Papal States against Garibaldi and the Italian patriots. The Brigade was raised in 1860.
First line reads: You true Roman sons of old Erin's green isle, your attention I/ crave for a moment.
In one column with an illustration above the title.
Ballads, English
Mercenary troops