The Bon Ton Skillig list
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1830
Place of publication: Cork, Ireland?
Language: eng
Subjects: Ballads; Marriage customs and rites; Social life and customs
Other titles: I sing of old and young with or without a beau
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Text beneath caption printed in two columns.

Date estimated from similar examples.

"Skillig" is a variant spelling of "Skellig" in this form of poem.

A "Skellig list" from the city of Cork. A poem pairing up local bachelors and unmarried women, using false (but easily discovered) names, giving the age and physical descriptions of the couples (flattering or insulting), how long they have been unmarried, street of residence, and other personal details. The couples are supposed to take themselves to the island Skellig Michael off the Kerry coast and be married; Lent came ten days later on the Skelligs and gave the couples more time, as marriages were supposed to take place before Lent. Skellig lists were composed and circulated on Shrove Tuesday in Cork, Kerry and elsewhere. The humor in the Skellig lists "consists of associating the most probable and improbable persons." - James Coleman, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Series 2, Vol. 1., 77-78.

Streets in Cork referenced: the Parade, Patrick-street, the Marsh, Broad-lane.

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