Come Back to Erin

A returned-exile appeal written and composed by “Claribel” — the pen name of English songwriter Charlotte Alington Barnard (1830–1869) — and one of the most commercially successful Irish-themed parlor songs of the Victorian era despite its English authorship. Barnard was among the first women to make a professional career of ballad-writing, and “Come Back to Erin” remained a fixture of Irish-American songbooks and tenor repertoire into the twentieth century.