„The song collector Colm Ó Lochlainn, in his book Irish Street Ballads, described how his mother learnt „Whiskey in the Jar“ in Limerick in 1870 from a man called Buckley who came from Cork. When Ó Lochlainn included the song in Irish Street Ballads, he wrote down the lyrics from memory as he had learnt them from his mother.“
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