Lamentation on Mitchell.
[London] : Birt, printer, 39, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials, London,
[1848]
Dated from internal evidence - Mitchel was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation - "In June [1848] Mitchel was conveyed in the Scourge to Bermuda, where he was confined to the hulks. Because of his bad asthma, he was removed in the Neptune to the Cape of Good Hope. Owing to the colonists' refusal to permit the convicts to land, a stance that Mitchel wholeheartedly supported, the Neptune remained at anchor in Simon's Bay from 19 September 1849 to 19 February 1850. In April 1850, Mitchel arrived in Van Diemen's Land, where he was allowed to reside with John Martin in one of the police districts on a ticket-of-leave. In June 1851 he was joined by his wife and family. On 9 June 1853 Mitchel resigned his ticket-of-leave, and escaped from Van Diemen's Land..." - information from the 'Oxford Dictionary of Natioinal Biography' online.
First line reads: You sons of old Erin I pray give attention.
In two columns.
Mitchel, John, 1815-1875
Ballads, English
Prisoners, Transportation of
Revolutionaries