William McBurney
Life ?-?1902 [MBurney]; author of The Croppy Boy, A Ballad of 98; reputedly d. in America. JMC DBIV
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References Irish Literature, gen. ed. Justin McCarthy (Washington: Catholic Univ. of America 1904), selects The Croppy Boy and The Good Ship Castle Down; said to have died in this country [America] in 1902.
John Cooke, ed., The Dublin
Book of Irish Verse (Dublin: Hodges Figgis 1909), givfes no dates.
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Quotations The Croppy Boy: [
] Is the priest at home? or may he be seen? / I would speak a word with Father Green ... I love my country above my King [
&c.].
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