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Irish Melodies from The Citizen Magazine, 1840s

Notations of Irish traditional melodies have been published in Irish magazines and other periodicals since the 18th century, but one of the most important such bodies of melodies appeared in the 1840s, in the Dublin periodical The Citizen or Dublin Monthly Magazine.

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The citizen or, Dublin monthly magazine : [January - June, 1841]

Cia ab bealach a deachaidh si = Which way did she go? — The mother’s lamentation — The wearing of the green — [Unititled jig] — Fuaim na dtonn = Sound of the waves — No union for Our dear native island — Irish dance — If sadly thinking — bFearr liom a bheith marbh = I had rather be dead — Paisdin fuinne — Goirtin ornadh = The little field of barley — Sugradh ann gach uile ait = Diversion every where — The midnight fifer — Rocky road to Dublin — The wearing of the green — Paidin Mhac Ruairidhe = Paddy Mac Rory — Fonncodail : Irish lullaby — Humours of Passage — Fonn na sruth = Song of the streams — Maire St Seorse = Molly St George — Lutghair na naidear = The joy of the maidens — Conchobhar ua Raghallaigh Cluann = Connor O’Reilly of Clounish — An deoruide tuirseach = The weary wanderer — Ardharc na Eire = The standard of Ireland — Dance — Is breagh an cailin í = She is a lovely girl — Ta mo chroidhe trom = My heart is heavy — Buachail cuil dubh = The wicked black boy — Jackson’s drum — Ta mo triusan pollach = There’s a hole in my breeches — Bhfuil Maire ceansa marbh? = Is gentle Mary dead — Conchabhar ua Raghallaigh = Connor O’Reilly — Bas na gcarad se buairidh me = The death of my friends is what grieves me — An bruach grianach = The sunny bank — Sian Mac Diarmada = John McDermott — Dance — Feadam mas aill liom = I can if I choose — An maigdean cruadhchroidheach = The hard-hearted Maiden — Lady Westmorland’s fancy — The rocky road — An duibhghein cealgach = The deceitful stranger — Maigdean drid liom = Maiden wander with we — Dance

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