Patrick Joseph McCall
Patrick Joseph McCall (6 March 1861 – 8 March 1919) was an
Irish songwriter and
poet, known mostly as the author of lyrics for popular ballads. He was assisted in putting the Wexford ballads, dealing with the 1798 Rising, to music by
Arthur Warren Darley using traditional Irish airs. His surname is one of the many anglicizations of the Irish surname
Mac Cathmhaoil, a family that were chieftains of Kinel Farry (
Clogher area) in
County Tyrone.
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