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2 unusual facts about The Unfortunate Rake


The Unfortunate Rake

The Bard of Armagh - this differs in not being a reflection on imminent death but a lament by an old man for lost youth

Westmoreland Lock Hospital

A song was called The Unfortunate Rake in Ireland and was sung in Dublin in the 1790s (there is a Folkways record - "The Unfortunate Rake", FS 3805 - dedicated exclusively to this family).



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