“Michael Power”

Description

"On my road to Dungarvan" Michael Power finds a pistol, holds up a postboy and a dragoon, kills four yeomen on the road, twelve more in Carrick and Carey the hangman. He goes to Fulham barracks where he is convicted and sentenced to be hanged.

Notes

Hall, notes to Voice08, describes "Michael Power" as "a humorous unlikely tale of fiction, ... set in the counties of Waterford and Wexford in those dangerous times of 1798." - BS

Recordings

  • Straighty Flanagan, "Michael Power" (on Voice08)

References

  1. Roud #8141
  2. BI, RcMicPow

About

Author: unknown
Earliest date: 1976 (recording, Straighty Flanagan)
Found in: Ireland