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‘The Night That Larry Was Stretched’

 
Irish Literature Companion: ‘The Night That Larry Was Stretched’
 

‘Night That Larry Was Stretched, The’, a much-anthologized anonymous 18th-cent. Dublin ballad which deals with the execution by hanging of a felon and his comical farewells, and written by an educated hand in Hiberno-English cant.

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