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|f_country=Ireland
|f_genre=Irish
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|f_book_title=Gems of Ireland: 200 Airs
|f_collector=John Clinton
|f_year=1841
|f_page=No. 77, p. 39
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T:I Once had a true Love
M:3/8
L:1/8
R:Air
Q:”With feeling”
B:J. Clinton – Gems of Ireland:200 Airs (1841, No. 77, p. 39)
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N:”A tune of the Glen of Ishmail, County Wicklow.” 
B:Smollet Holden - Collection of favourite Irish Airs (London, c. 1841; p. 10)
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T:Through grief and through hunger
M:3/8
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Q:"Andante"
B:P.M. Haverty – One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 3 (1859, No. 237, p. 115)
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