A new song on the Gaol of Clonmalal [sic]

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Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Brereton, P., printer.
Summary:Broadside ballad sheet [replete with several spelling and printing errors] printed by Peter Brereton of Dublin, a ballad-sheet printer who flourished in the second half of the 19th century. During this time he occupied various addresses in Dublin city, among them 1 Lower Exchange St. and 55 and 56 Cooke St., Dublin. The first lines of this broadside ballad are: "Hard ha[r]d is my state, And vain my repineing [sic]..". Featuring two crude woodcuts - at top of sheet, is one of a man and a woman seated at a table in an interior [in a library or study?] reading and at bottom of sheet a woodcut of a floral decoration.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: Dublin : P. [Peter] Brereton, Printer, 1 Lr [Lower] Exchange St., [n.d., between ca. 1860-1880?].
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Notes:This item is held in the Department of Ephemera.

Physical description: 1 sheet : woodcuts, 28.6 x 11.3 cm..

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EPH C1034
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Ephemera
Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland.