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(1) Lamentable lines on the murder of Mary Sweeney

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https://digital.nls.uk/74891308

Description

Michael Teirnan was found not guilty of murder but convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years penal servitude. First line reads: First line reads: All you who have kind feeling hearts with me now sympathise. In one column. This edition had no woodcut.

Shelfmark

Crawford.EB.1524

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Form / genre:

Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides

Dates / events:

1879 [Date printed]
1800-1900 [Date printed]

Places:

Europe > Ireland > Leinster > County Dublin > Dublin borough > Dublin (inhabited place) [Place printed]

Subject / content:

Murders
Ballads
Sentencing
Prisons
Forced labor
Homicides
Woodcuts (prints)

Person / organisation:

Teirnan, Michael [Subject of text]
Sweeney, Mary [Subject of text]

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English ballads

Description

Collection of 2,300 broadside ballads, mostly printed in England in the 19th century. Topics range from courtship, crime, disasters and emigration to fashion, theatre, politics, laments sports and old age. Includes ballads on Scotland and Ireland. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

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Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

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