Ballads
Articles
- ‘Oh, Vaunted Queensland!’: A Literary Interpretation, 1862-69
About the year 1862 there 'stranded somehow on the shore of Queensland' an ex-student of King's College, Aberdeen, who had been sent down six or…
1 October 1973 - ‘The Ram of Albury’
The Australian 'Ram of Dalby' represents an adaptation of an English landsman's song to the Australian situation. 'The Albury Ram', however, represents a fusion of…
1 October 1969 - Urban Influence on Australian Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century
Undoubtedly during the last half of the nineteenth century Australian cities and urban life generally had become vitally important in determining the nature of economic…
1 October 1975 - ‘Sweet Mary of Kilmore’: Discrimination in Australian Folklore Scholarship
The author traces the history of an originally Irish folk song ‘Sweet Mary of Kilmore’ that never made it into Australian folklore collections. He argues…
1 November 2008 - 'The Crows Kept Flyin’ Up': Old Bush Song or Mary Gilmore Ballad?
Examines the origins of the ballad 'The Crows Kept Flyin' Up', claimed by Henry Lawson to be an 'old bush song' but likely written by…
1 May 1981 - Bibliographic Notes on Selected Irish-Australian Writers
This essay surveys the viewpoints of selected Irish-Australian writers: the anthologists Bill Wannan, Vincent Woods and Colleen Burke then Bernard O’Dowd, Brian Elliott, Tom Inglis…
30 September 2021