The bard of Armagh.
[Dublin? : s.n.,
ca. 1870?]
According to one legend the Bard of Armagh is thought to be Patrick Donnelly, a priest in Armagh. Though maintaining his administration of the church at Armagh, he was made Bishop of Dromore in 1697, the same year as the issuance of the Bishops Banishment Act. The Act required many of the Catholic clergy to leave the Kingdom, and forbid the entry of any clergy. Donnelly became an outlaw and took refuge in Slieve Gullion, Armagh, and assumed the persona of a travelling harper, Phelim Brady.
Dated from examination of text and style.
First line reads: O list to the lay of a poor Irish harper.
In one column with an illustration above the title.
Ballads, English
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