Keith McKenry

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 that the reason for this was a scholarly discrimination in favour of shearers’, bushranging and…

From an unattributed typescript in the Russel Ward Manuscript Collection MS 7576, series 12, folder 6, National Library of Australia, and reproduced by permission of National Library of Australia. (NB: The punctuation and spelling given below are that on the…