St Patrick Was a Gentleman

A comic song in praise of Ireland’s improbably well-connected patron saint (“his father was a Gallagher, his uncle was a Grady”), attributed to Henry Bennett and a Mr. Toleken of Cork, who are said to have written it for a Cork stage entertainment around 1815, with first publication in 1835. It has stayed in the living repertoire: Christy Moore performs it (crediting the author as unknown), and the Waterford band Rattle the Boards recorded it on The Parish Platform.