The Night Before Larry Was Stretched
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Book Details:
Publisher:Blackstaff Press Ltd
Published Date:30th November -0001
Weight:0.5051 kilograms
Binding:hardcover
Condition:LikeNew
Notes:McDonnell, Hector (Illustrator). The Night Before Larry was Stretched [with signed etching]. With an introduction by Terence de Vere White. Belfast, The Blackstaff Press, 1984. 20.5 cm x 13 cm. IX, 96 pages. Original Hardcover in original slipcase. Number 48 out of a limited edition of 500 copies / Excellent, close to new condition. Includes orignial, signed etching. The Night Before Larry Was Stretched is an Irish execution ballad written in the Newgate cant. The song is in The Festival of Anacreon, with tune direction To the hundreds of Drury I write. It is also listed in Colm ? Lochlainn's Irish Street Ballads and Frank Harte's Songs of Dublin. Donagh MacDonagh gives the following sleeve note 'One of a group of Execution Songs written in Newgate Cant or Slang Style in the 1780s, others being The Kilmainham Minuet, Luke Caffrey's Ghost and Larry's Ghost in which, as promised in the seventh stanza of the present ballad, Larry comes in a sheet to sweet Molly!' The Newgate Cant or Slang
