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A new song on the execution of Richard Burke : who was hanged at Clonmel Gaol, for the poisoning of his wife, Johanna Burke, by strychnine!!

Accession number
PML 136667.40
Published
Dublin : John F. Nugent and Co. Printers 35 New-Row, West (Late of 35 Cook-Street), [1862?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Ballad on the execution of Richard Burke, which took place at Clonmel on Aug. 25. 1862.
Coffin formed from heavy black rules above title enclosing the name "Richard Burke" within; cut at head of sheet of a woman standing full-length, with a sofa in the background at right.
Item mounted onto a leaf from an album of collected song sheets and broadsides (PML 136667) the individual folios disbound and housed in two boxes.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (wood engraving) ; 43 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department