Come Here To Me!

You have to go abroad to find the gems. In a second hand bookshop in Edinburgh, a copy of Dublin:A Travellers’ Companion showed up, which features many excerpts from classic Dublin books and accounts.

This Dublin ballad by Dermot O’ Byrne, which was taken from An Anthology of 1916 by Edna Fitzhenry, is one I had not come across before and deemed worthy of sharing here.