Echoes of Percy French - Wants List.

We are interested in all types of material relating to Percy French and his legacy. We welcome publications, documents, posters, flyers, leaflets, brochures etc. for any event, anywhere, that was held in celebration of the life of this great Roscommon man (see below). We also welcome sheet-music, photographs, vinyl records, tapes etc. and all types of material relating to his music, art and life. If you have anything, please contact us.

Posters, leaflets, programmes & ephemera wanted.

For example:

  • Original Percy French programmes, posters, copies of "The Jarvey", newspaper and magazine reviews and any type of related ephemera.

  • Paper ephemera relating to the 1930's song and the 1941 MGM cartoon featuring "Abdul the Bulbul Ameer" (sic) or the 1980's Whitbread beer promotion using the same character? Beer mats, posters, etc.

  • Postcards by Lawrence of Dublin featuring artwork by L. Anthony (and / or others) depicting Irish Characters and using Percy French Verses (e.g. Phil the Fluters "Miss  Aileen Mac Carthy and her private ass  & cart") etc.

  • Material relating to any of the various Percy French Societies activities. Programmes, posters, menu's, invitations, letters etc. Non-Irish based Societies ephemera particularly welcome.

  • Promotional material relating to "Time Beer" - a Smithwicks promotion from the 1960's? Posters, pub promotions, etc.

  • Material relating to the promotion of Percy French paintings by the Orial Gallery and others?

  • General programmes, invitations, menu's, newspaper and magazine articles and all kinds of promotional material relating to Percy French or his songs.

  • Material relating to "The Golden Years" (Dublin) 1967 - '69? or "Phil the Fluter" (London) 1969, or any similar material?

  • Postcards, trade cards, cigarette cards etc. featuring Percy French, his songs, or monuments erected to his memory.

  • Etc. etc. Everything considered.

If you have anything, please contact us.

 

"Dublin Up To Date" by W. P. French and R. Caulfield. Staged at Dublin Castle on 23 February 1892.

 

Everything and anything - old or modern: wanted.

Publications & Books required.

"Chronicles of Percy French" by Mrs. deBurgh Daly. Talbot Press 1922.

"The Irish Troubadour" (More Songs of Percy French). by Keith Prowse (n.d.)

"Lead Kindly Light, 35 Years of Percy French at the Oriel Gallery - A Millennium Retrospective" by The Oriel Gallery. (n.d.)

"Lead Kindly Light - – Celebrating 150 Years of Percy French" by The Oriel Gallery. (n.d.)

"Percy French & His Songs" by James N. Healy. Mercier Press (1966).

"Willie" by Ettie French. Percy French Society, Bangor, Co. Down. (1994).

"Percy French. An Appreciation"

by Val Vousden, from "The Capuchin Annual" (No date: 1935?).

Sheet-Music wanted:

 

Song (date of original)

Echoes of PF Collection

Remarks

PC

KP

SF

CC

 Other*

 

1

A Sailor Courted a Farmer's Daughter.

 

 

 

 

    

2

Abdul Abulbul Amir (1877).

X

 Abdul The Bulbul Ameer

3

Ach I Dunno (1916).

X

 

 

 

    

4

All By The Baltic Say (1914)

 

 

 

 

    

5

Am Tag (To the Day) (1914).

 

 

 

 

    

6

Andy McElroe (1888).

 

 

 

 

    

7

Are Ye Right There, Michael (1897).

 

 

 

 

    

8

Come Back Paddy Reilly (1912).

X

X

 

 

    

9

Donegan's Daughter (1906). *

 

 

 

 

    

10

Drumcolligher (1895).

 X

 

 

 

    

11

Eileen Oge (The Pride of Petravore) (1898)

 

X

 

 

    

12

Father O'Callaghan (1906). **

 

 

 

 

    

13

Fighting McGuire (1895).

 

 

 

 

   A Man by the Name of Maguire

14

Flaherty's Drake (1898).

 

 

 

 

    

15

Flanagan's Flying Machine (1911).

 

 

 

 

    

16

I Fought a Fierce Hyena.

 

 

 

 

    

17

Jim Wheelahan's Automobile (1903).

 

 

 

 

    
18 King Edward in Erin (1903). ****            

19

Kitty Gallagher (1898).

 

 

 

 

    

20

Larry Mick McGarry (1915).

 

X

 

 

    

21

Little Brigid Flynn (1913).

 

X

 

 

    

22

Maguire's Motor Bike (1903). *

 

 

 

 

    

23

Mat Hannigan's Aunt (1892).

 

 

 

 

    

24

McBreen's Heifer (1898).

X 

 

 

 

    

25

Mick's Hotel (1907).

 

 

 

 

    

26

Mrs Brady (1907). *

 

 

 

 

    

27

Mulligan's Masquerade (1894).

 

 

 

 

    

28

No More of Yer Golfin' for Me (1906). *

 

 

 

 

    

29

Phil the Fluther's Ball (1888).

 

X

 

 

    

30

Pretendy Land (1907).

 

 

 

 

    
31

Rafferty's Racin' Mare (1905). *

 

 

 

 

    
32

Slattery's Mounted Fut (1888).

 

X

 

 

    
33

Soldiers Three (1892).

 

 

 

 

    
34

Sweet Marie.

 

 

 

 

    
35 Thats Why They're Burying Him (1912). ***            
36

The Darlin' Girl from Clare (1906). *

 

 

 

 

    
37

The Emigrants's Letter (1910).

 

 

 

 

    
38 The Fairies Lough (Inismeela) (1913).            
39

The Fortunes of Finnegan (1900).

 

 

 

 

    
40

The Girl on a Big Black Mare.

 

 

 

 

    
41

The Hoodoo (1906). **

 

 

 

 

X

  
42

The Kerry Courting (1909).

 

 

 

 

    
43

The Killyran Wrackers (1914).

 

 

 

 

    
44

The Mary Ann McHugh (1884).

 

 

 

 

    
45

The Mountains O'Mourne (1896).

X

X

X

X

    
46

The Night that Miss Cooney Eloped (1894).

 

 

 

 

    
47

The Oklahoma Rose (1906). ***

 

 

 

 

    
48

Tullinahaw (1911). **

 

 

 

 

    
49

When Erin Wakes (1900). ****

 

 

 

 

    
50

Phishlin' Phil McHugh (1901).

 

 

 

 

    
51 Wait for a While Now Mary (1906). *            
52

Who said the Hook Never Hurted the Worms.

 

 

 

 

    

This is a list of Percy French Songs. It is not a complete list. Most or all of these were published by Pigott & Co. of Dublin. Quite a few were published by Keith Prowse of London, while others were published by Sam Fox in America and Chappell & Co. in Australia. In addition Joseph Williams Ltd. *, Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd. **, Francis Day & Hunter ***  and Weekes & Co. **** all of London, also produces them. In the "Echoes Collection" we are endeavouring to compile as complete a collection as possible from all published sources.

An 'X' in the box means we have a copy. If you have any, not marked with an 'X'  please contact us.

The codes are PC = Pigott & Co., KP = Keith Prowse, SF = Sam Fox, CC = Chappell & Co. and Other = Williams, Ascherberg, Francis and Weekes (see apteryx *).

The "Echoes Collection" is housed in the Local Studies Archive of Roscommon County Library.

 

A very good historical description of Sheet Music can be found at Wikipedia Sheet Music.

Vinyl Records, Cassette Tapes and other music media. (Other than those illustrated below).

We welcome all types of material - old and new! If you have any please contact us.

All of the material illustrated on this page has been deposited in the Local Studies Archive of Roscommon County Library.

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