‘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.
| 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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