1. Alan Peat (ed.), ‘The Most Dismal Times’ William Rowbottom’s Diary Part 11787–1799 (Oldham, 1996), 83, 84.
2. George Denis Zimmermann, Songs of Irish Rebellion: Political Street Ballads and Rebel Songs, 1780–1900 (Dublin, 1967).
3. Guy Beiner discusses ‘the lingering messianic reverence accorded to Napoleon Bonaparte in Irish folklore, which was manifested particularly in song and ballad tradition’, in Guy Beiner, Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory (Wisconsin, 2007), 145.
4. Both Kevin Whelan and Breandan Ó Buachalla address the topic in Thomas Bartlett et al. (eds), 1798: A Bicentenary Perspective (Dublin, 2003).
5. Terry Moylan (ed.), The Age of Revolution in the Irish Song Tradition, 1776 to 1815 (Dublin, 2000), for repertoire beyond 1798.