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8 2 25 20120411 25 NOTES 1 National Gallery of Ireland, Acquisitions, 1986–88 (Dublin, 1988), p. 69. 2 ibid., pp. 68, 70. 3 ibid., p. 68; [Daniel Hayes], The works in verse of Daniel Hayes, Esq; … (London, 1769), p.25. 4 Diarmuid Ó Muirithe, The words we use III (Dublin, 1999), p. 64. 5 ‘Moll Wheeler’s’ in later versions of the song: The Charms of Chearfulness: a collection of comic songs, many of them originals (Carlisle, 1778), p. 144. 6 London, British Library: G.303.(92.) [1730?]; H.1653.jj.(18.) [c.1740.]; H.1994.b.(80.) [1745?] 7 Patrick Fagan, The second city: portrait of Dublin, 1700–1760 (Dublin, 1986), pp. 19–20. 8 ‘Irish national song’, 553. 9 Eileen O’Doherty (ed.), The Walking Polka: a collec- tion of sets (Dublin, 1995), p. 158. 10 Shields, Old Dublin songs, pp. 60, 71. 11 The Sporting Magazine, xl, no. 235 (April 1812), 156. 12 The Sporting Review, a monthly chronicle of the turf, the chase, ... ii (July–December 1839), 66. 13 Farm Book, 1774-1824, page 1, by Thomas Jefferson [electronic edition]. Thomas Jefferson Papers: An Electronic Archive. Boston, Mass. : Massachusetts Historical Society, 2003. Online @ http://www.thomasjeffersonpapers.org/ Accessed 29 December 2011. 14 Popular songs, pp 251, 252. 15 ibid. 16 Mary Lyons (ed.), The memoirs of Mrs Leeson, madam, 1717–97 (Dublin, 1995), pp. 217–18. 17 Thomas de Quincey, ‘Confessions of an English opium eater ...’, Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, new ser., v (September 1838), 561–2. J.W. Croker is called ‘Ally Croker’ and also linked to the song in [Paul Methuen], The new Tory guide (London, 1819), pp. 13, 166. 18 James Boswell, The life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.d. In- cluding a journal of a tour to the Hebrides … a new edition with numerous additions and notes by John Wilson Croker (5 vols., London, 1831), iv, p. 107. 19 ‘Irish national song’, 553. 20 Reddin, ‘Irish Crokers’, pp. 51–2. Possibly the song, ‘Ingin Langley a Lios na m-Broc: Langley’s Daughter of Lisnabrock’, was about one of their daughters: P.W. Joyce, Old Irish folk music and songs (Dublin, 1909), p. 372. 21 The life of John Buncle, Esq; … (2 vols., London, 1756, 1766), I, pp. 87–8. 22 Dublin, National Library of Ireland, Genealogical Of- fice Ms 164, po. 216–18. 23 ‘Irish national song’, 552. 24 Julian Pilling, ‘The dances of William Jones’, Histori- cal Dance ii, no. 2 (1982), p.34. Online @ http://www.dhds.org.uk/jnl/pdf/hd2n2p30.pdf Ac- cessed 29 December 2011. William Neal, A choice collection of country dances … (Dublin, 1726), p. 6, ‘Lastrum Pone’, which possibly dates the song to be- tween 1726 and Grogan’s death in 1728/9. A contemporary reference to this tune appears in Toby Barnard, Making the Grand Figure: lives and possessions in Ireland, 1641–1770 (New Haven and London, 2004), p. 10, where the author writes of John Carteret (1690–1763), 2 nd Earl Granville, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1724–30: Less blatantly, the sociable lords lieutenant, such as Carteret, wooed the important of Protestant Ireland. Some suspected that the charmer played to the gallery. A tune, ‘Lustrum Pony’, came into vogue, to which Carteret per- suaded ‘my poor silly countrymen’ to perform ‘a most ungraceful set of steps that would be- come any one above the degree of those who carry a cake at a maypole or a hat at a codling match’. ... Barnard is quoting from a letter written be- tween 1725 and 1729 by Clotilda, daughter of Sir Maurice Eustace of Harristown, co. Kil- dare, to her husband, Thomas Tickell (1685– 1740), a minor poet who was secretary to Lord Carteret, as the Lord Lieutenant was popularly known (p. 377). The ‘cake at a maypole’ clearly refers to the custom of the cake dance, when couples competed for a large cake mounted aloft on a pole. ‘A hat at a codling match’ almost certainly refers to a similar cus- tom, but what it was I do not know. Rather than a ‘young fish’, ‘codling’ here probably had the old meaning of an apple that was nearly ripe.

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