The Ulster Reciter: Ballads, Poems and Recitations for Every Occasion.
Author: McPARTLAND, Joe ((Editor).
Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2002 (reprint). 90 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
CONTENTS:-
Foreword.
The Man from God Knows Where Florence M. Wilson
The Ballad of William Bloat Raymond Calvert
The Lament of the Irish Emigrant Helen, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava
The Stitcher Richard Rowley
Not Done Yet Richard Rowley
The Emigrant’s Letter Percy French
Carmody’s Mare Percy French
An Irish Mother Percy French
Ach, I Dunno Percy French
Wee Hughie Elizabeth Shane
Ach No! John O’ The North
Sandy and Andy John O’ The North
The Wee Yellow Dog John O’ The North
Me An’ Me Da W. F. Marshall
Sarah Ann W. F. Marshall
The New Machinery from the Farmer’s Journal
The Hottest Wee Widow in Larne Louis Gilbert
Sing a Song of York Street John Campbell
‘Casual’ Curses John Campbell
Clogher Valley Railway E. O. Byrne
The Song of the Unemployed Thomas Carnduff
Herself Come Back Padraig Gregory
The Three Stages Padraig Gregory
The Diagonal Steam-Trap Crawford Howard
When I was a Little Girl Alice Milligan
An Old Woman of the Roads Padraic Colum
The Ballad of Master M’Grath Anon.
The Flower of Sweet Strabane Traditional
The Ould Orange Flute Traditional
Let the Toast Pass Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A Glass of Beer James Stephens
Johnny McEldoo Anon.
Johnny Sands Anon.
Ballad to a Traditional Refrain Maurice James Craig
Favourite Imports
The Cremation of Sam McGee Robert Service
The Shooting of Dan McGrew Robert Service
Little Boy Blue Eugene Field
Hohenlinden Thomas Campbell
The Charge of the Light Brigade Lord Tennyson
Casabianca Felicia Hemans
Gunga Din Rudyard Kipling
The Green Eye of the Yellow God J. Milton Hayes
Index of First Lines
Advice on the Declamation of Verse