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On the inside hardback cover is a sticker from Purcell & Company.

Insert Jim’s photo of sticker here.

The last registry of Purcell & Company trading from 124 Patrick Street and Lavitt’s Quay Cork was in 1935. The Street Traders Register can be found in Cork City Library.;

Tune. My Love Nell.

An old Irish tune.

This is the air of the song ‘The Star of the County Down’.

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Tune. The Boatman’s Dance.

These songs would have been part of the Black and White Minstrel shows that were very popular in America and would have made their way back to Ireland in the 19th century.

Ref Heart Songs Melodies of Days Gone by. Published by Chapple in 1909.Page 76. Here its called De Boatmen’s Dance

There is a version of the boatman’s dance in Kerr’s Second Collection, Kerr has this under the heading, Negro Sand Jigs Plantation Dances and Walk Rounds. Both versions sound like negro plantation dance tunes. There are also versions of the tune in the Levy Collection.

Above is one example of the Boatman’s Dance that appears in the Levy Collection.

Ref levy collection

Tune. Rosalee.

Ref Heart Songs Melodies of Days Gone by. Published by Chapple in 1909.Page 450.

There are different tunes in the Levy Collection with references to Rosa Lee. John McCarthy has only part of this tune.

Ref Levy CollectionJohn Casper Scherpf Publication: New York: Wm. Vanderbeek, (Agent), 479 Broadway, 1848.