044.01	snowycrested curl amoist the leader's wild and moulting hair,
–044.01+	song The Snowy-breasted Pearl
–044.01+	(snowy-crested mountain)
–044.01+	(hereditary white lock) [031.15]
–044.01+	amidst
–044.01+	(orchestra leader)
–044.01+	J. Augustine Wade: song A Wild Mountain Air
044.02	'Ductor' Hitchcock hoisted his fezzy fuzz at bludgeon's height
–044.02+	Latin ductor: leader
–044.02+	'The Doctor': Tommy Robinson, a well-known 19th century Dublin organist
–044.02+	conductor
–044.02+	(elevation of the host and the ritual of the chalice in Wagner's Parsifal)
–044.02+	fez: a Turkish felt cap
044.03	signum to his companions of the chalice for the Loud Fellow,
–044.03+	according to some (e.g. Ruoff: The Volume Library), the Norman name Percival (German Parsifal) means 'companion of the chalice'
–044.03+	(Knights of the Round Table, of which Percival was one, questing for the Holy Grail)
–044.03+	chase
–044.03+	Longfellow
–044.03+	(singer)
–044.03+	Motif: fall/rise (fell, rose) [.04]
044.04	boys' and silentium in curia! (our maypole once more where he rose
–044.04+	Latin silentium in curia!: silence in court! (cried at a trial)
–044.04+	song A Nation Once Again (19th century Irish nationalist song) [043.21]
044.05	of old) and the canto was chantied there chorussed and christened
–044.05+	Italian canto: song
–044.05+	French chanté: sung
044.06	where by the old tollgate, Saint Annona's Street and Church.
–044.06+	Saint Andrew's Street and Church: site of Thingmote, Norse parliament in Dublin
–044.06+	Annona: in Roman mythology, the divine personification of Rome's grain supply
044.07	And around the lawn the rann it rann and this is the rann that
–044.07+	{{Synopsis: I.2.2.G: [044.07-044.21]: introducing the ballad — applause}}
–044.07+	land
–044.07+	VI.B.3.088e (r): 'rann'
–044.07+	Fitzpatrick: Ireland and the Making of Britain 164: 'Crimthann... gained victories and extended his sway over Alba, Britain and Gaul, as the Shanachie tells us in the following rann: "Crimthann, son of Fidach, ruled The Alban and the Irish lands, Beyond the clear blue seas he quelled The British and the Gallic might"'
–044.07+	Anglo-Irish rann: verse, stanza
–044.07+	German rann: flowed
–044.07+	ran
–044.07+	nursery rhyme The House That Jack Built: 'This is the house that Jack built'
044.08	Hosty made. Spoken. Boyles and Cahills, Skerretts and Pritchards,
–044.08+	boys and girls
–044.08+	D.W. Cahill: Irish author, 6'5" high; died in Boston
–044.08+	Irish caile: girl
–044.08+	skirts and breeches
044.09	viersified and piersified may the treeth we tale of live in stoney.
–044.09+	versified
–044.09+	German vier: four (the upcoming ballad is mostly written in quatrains, stanzas of four lines)
–044.09+	Persse (Persse O'Reilly)
–044.09+	Motif: tree/stone
–044.09+	truth
–044.09+	tell
–044.09+	story
044.10	Here line the refrains of. Some vote him Vike, some mote him
–044.10+	here lie the remains of
–044.10+	refrain: the chorus of a song repeated at the end of each stanza (as, more or less, in the upcoming ballad)
–044.10+	(some call him this, some call him that)
–044.10+	Motif: some/others [.17]
–044.10+	Viking
044.11	Mike, some dub him Llyn and Phin while others hail him Lug
–044.11+	Dublin
–044.11+	Welsh llyn: lake, pond
–044.11+	Finn
–044.11+	Lug: Irish god, member of the Tuatha Dé Danann (also known as Lugh)
044.12	Bug Dan Lop, Lex, Lax, Gunne or Guinn. Some apt him Arth,
–044.12+	(earwig)
–044.12+	(Daniel O'Connell)
–044.12+	Dunlop (tyres)
–044.12+	Latin lex: law
–044.12+	lax: salmon
–044.12+	Michael Gunn
–044.12+	Arthur Guinness: prominent 19th-20th century Irish businessman and politician, great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, the founder of the Guinness brewery and dynasty
–044.12+	Welsh arth: a bear
044.13	some bapt him Barth, Coll, Noll, Soll, Will, Weel, Wall but I
–044.13+	baptise
–044.13+	Bartholomew Vanhomrigh: 17th century Lord-Mayor of Dublin and father of Swift's Vanessa
–044.13+	Irish coll: the letter C
–044.13+	Old Noll: nickname of Oliver Cromwell
–044.13+	song I'll Name the Boy Dennis, or No Name at All
044.14	parse him Persse O'Reilly else he's called no name at all. To-
–044.14+	Persse O'Reilly [.24]
–044.14+	French perce-oreille: earwig
–044.14+	Patrick Pearse and Michael O'Rahilly were two of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising (the former was executed shortly after, the latter was killed during)
–044.14+	John Boyle O'Reilly of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (his unit produced treasonable ballads)
–044.14+	EHC (Motif: HCE)
044.15	gether. Arrah, leave it to Hosty, frosty Hosty, leave it to Hosty
–044.15+	Anglo-Irish arrah: but, now, really
044.16	for he's the mann to rhyme the rann, the rann, the rann, the king
–044.16+	German Mann: man
–044.16+	Samuel Lover: Ballads and Ballad Singers: 'The Rhyme for the Ram' (a comic poem about the impossibility of finding a fit rhyme for 'ram')
–044.16+	Irish children used to carry a dead wren on a stick from door to door collecting money on Saint Stephen's Day (26 December), singing: song 'The wren, the wren, The king of all birds, Saint Stephen's his day, Was caught in the furze' (Joyce: Ulysses.15.1451)
–044.16+	Anglo-Irish Pronunciation rann: wren
–044.16+	Anglo-Irish rann: verse, stanza
044.17	of all ranns. Have you here? (Some ha) Have we where? (Some
–044.17+	Motif: some/others (twice) [.10]
044.18	hant) Have you hered? (Others do) Have we whered? (Others dont)
–044.18+	have you heard of...
044.19	It's cumming, it's brumming! The clip, the clop! (All cla) Glass
–044.19+	coming
–044.19+	French Colloquial Cambronne: a euphemism for merde (as General Cambronne was said to have shouted 'Merde!' (French Slang 'Shit!'; an expletive indicating refusal) when ordered to retreat at the Battle of Waterloo)
–044.19+	German brummen: to buzz, to grunt, to snarl, to growl
–044.19+	brimming
–044.19+	VI.B.44.181a (b): 'glass crash'
–044.19+	Fay: A Short Glossary of Theatrical Terms 16: 'Glass Crash. — A quantity of broken glass emptied from a bucket on to a piece of sheet iron used to give the illusion of breaking glass'
044.20	crash. The (klikkaklakkaklaskaklopatzklatschabattacreppycrotty-
–044.20+	('The' is the first word of 'The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly') [.24]
–044.20+	Motif: 100-letter thunderword [.20-.21]
–044.20+	French claque: clap
–044.20+	Russian khlopat: clap
–044.20+	German Klatsch: clap, applaud
–044.20+	Italian battere: to clap
–044.20+	Greek krotoi: loud explosive noises
044.21	graddaghsemmihsammihnouithappluddyappladdypkonpkot!).
–044.21+	Irish greadadh: clapping
–044.21+	Swedish applådera: to applaud; to clap
044.22	{Ardite, arditi!
–044.22+	{{Synopsis: I.2.3.A: [044.22-047.29]: the ballad of Persse O'Reilly in fourteen stanzas — interspersed with cheers for Hosty}}
–044.22+	Italian ardite!: dare!, be brave!
–044.22+	Italian ardite: brave women
–044.22+	Irish arduigh e, arduigh i: lift it (masculine, feminine, respectively)
–044.22+	Latin audite!: hear!, listen! (plural)
–044.22+	Italian arditi: brave men, brave ones (name applied to special assault units of the Italian army in World War I)
–044.22+	Luigi Arditi: 19th century Italian conductor and composer, based in London but touring worldwide, including Dublin (Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 267: 'the veteran conductor Signor Arditi was as well known in Dublin as the Nelson Pillar'; his picture appears on Souvenir of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Opening of The Gaiety Theatre 14) [040.01]
044.23	{Music cue.
–044.23+	VI.B.44.181e (b): 'Music Cue'
–044.23+	Fay: A Short Glossary of Theatrical Terms 19: 'Music Cue. — A note on the prompt copy of a play to indicate where music is to be used either on the stage or in the orchestra'
044.24	"THE BALLAD OF PERSSE O'REILLY."
–044.24+	Persse O'Reilly [.14]
–044.24+	Variants: {BMs (47472-170): (as sung by Phoblacht)} (following the title of the ballad)
–044.24+	Variants: {BMs (47472-171): Sh sh sh! Sh sh sh! Sh! Sh! Sh!} (preceding the text of the ballad)
044.25
–044.25+	Variants: {FnF, Vkg: third note (above 'heard') is dotted (i.e. duration extended by half)} | {Png: third note (above 'heard') is not dotted}

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