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LILLIBULLERO, or LILLIBURLERO

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 686 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LILLIBULLERO, or LILLIBURLERO , the name of a See also:song popular at the end of the 17th See also:century, especially among the See also:army and supporters of See also:William III. in the See also:war in See also:Ireland during the revolution of 1688. The tune appears to have been much older, and was sung to an Irish nursery song at the beginning of the 17th century, and the attribution of See also:Henry See also:Purcell is based on the very slight ground that it was published in See also:Music's Handmaid, 1689, as " A new Irish Tune " by Henry Purcell. It was also a marching tune See also:familiar to soldiers. The doggerel verses have generally been assigned to See also:Thomas See also:Wharton, and See also:deal with the See also:administration of See also:Talbot, See also:earl of Tyrconnel, appointed by See also:James as his See also:lieutenant in Ireland in 1687. The refrain of the song lilliburllero bullen a la gave the See also:title of the song. See also:Macaulay says of the song " The verses and the tune caught the See also:fancy of the nation. From one end of See also:England to the other all classes were singing this idle See also:rhyme." Though Wharton claimed he had " sung a See also:king out of three kingdoms " and See also:Burnet says " perhaps never had so slight a thing so See also:great an effect " the success of the song was " the effect, and not the cause of that excited See also:state of public feeling which produced the revolution " (Macaulay, Hist. of Eng. See also:chap. ix.).

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