He collected Irish folk songs, including the famous She Moved Through the Fair, for which Colum wrote most of the words, with the musicologist Herbert Hughes.
The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery is a children's book by Padraic Colum.
It is based on an old Irish folk song, "specifically derived from 'She Moved Through the Fair' in the 1963 version by Davy Graham, which he in turn credited to Padraic Colum".
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Some of her lyrics were contained in New Songs (1904), a collection edited by Russell which also contained pieces by Padraic Colum and Alice Milligan.