The Irish brigade.
[Dublin? : s.n.,
1860?]
Dated from internal evidence - the first 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.
In one column with a woodcut above the title.
The Fenian men - first line reads: See who comes over the red blossomed/ heather.
The Irish brigade - first line reads: Hibrnias [sic] sweet Harp from your slumber awaken.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882
Fenian Brotherhood
Ballads, English
Mercenary troops