The exile of Erin
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 49633
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1790
Place of publication: [Massachusetts?
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Sailors -- Poetry; Ireland
Genres: Poetry
Other titles: Jack's come home from sea
Notes: Song in five stanzas; first line: There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin

Followed by A new song, called Jack's come home from sea; first line: Good people all I pray attend and listen to my song

The first title only is included in Ford, W.C. Broadsides, ballads &c. printed in Massachusetts ... no. 3086a. Imprint dates suggested by typography. Attributed to Thomas Campbell in Philbrick, Thomas L. "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258. Other editions have title: Erin go brah

Relief cut of the sun at head of first poem and of a ship at head of second; text in two columns; printed area measures 20.6 x 14.4 cm

Not in Evans or Bristol

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 3086a

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 49633)