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This is a list of songs about Dublin, Ireland, including parts of the city such as individual neighborhoods and sections, and famous personages, arranged chronologically. ==18th century== *"The Night Before Larry Was Stretched" - about the night before a hanging, in old Newgate cant; recorded by Frank Harte. Other Dublin execution ballads from this period include "The Kilmainham Minit", "Luke Caffrey's Ghost" and "Larry's Ghost".〔Harte, Frank, ''Dublin Street Songs'', Topic, 1967〕 *"The Dublin Privateer", late 1700s〔 *"The Dublin Baker", late 1700s〔 *"The Dublin Tragedy, or, the Unfortunate Merchant's Daughter", late 1700s〔 *"Miss King of Dublin", late 1700s〔 *"The Country Recruit's Description of the Military", late 1700s〔 *"A New Song on the Police Guards", late 1700s〔 *"The May Bush", late 1700s〔 *"Arbour Hill" - written by Robert Emmet about the burial place of the 1798 insurgents. *"Lock Hospital" (also known as "St. James Hospital" and "The Unfortunate Rake") - Irish version of a song also found in Britain and the USA (where it developed into "The Dying Cowboy" and "St. James Infirmary)"〔A.L.Lloyd, Folksong in England (London, 1967), pp. 219-220. It was collected in County Cork in 1848 and the singer said he learned it in Dublin in 1790.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of songs about Dublin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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