Van Diemen's Land or Henry the Poacher, Young Henry's Downfall, Beware Young Men (Roud 221). is an English transportation ballad. It was widely published...
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escape Van Diemen's Land (folk song), a transportation ballad Van Diemen's Land (U2 song), a song by U2 from Rattle and Hum Van Diemen's Land Company...
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Van Diemen's Land was the colonial name of the island of Tasmania used by the British during the European exploration and colonisation of Australia in...
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Rattle and Hum (redirect from Van Diemen's Land (U2 song))
harmonica The Edge – guitars, keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Van Diemen's Land" Adam Clayton – bass guitar Larry Mullen Jr. – drums, percussion Guest...
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Van Diemen's Land is a studio album by Australian singer–songwriter Russell Morris. It was released on 11 April 2014 by Fanfare, Ambition Records. The...
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E modal minor Andante sostenuto ('Spurn Point') in Eb Larghetto ('Van Diemen's Land') in D modal minor Lento ('She Borrowed Some of Her Mother’s Gold')...
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reference to the song in the diary of Charles Picknell, a sailor on the female-convict ship Kains that sailed to Van Diemen's Land in 1830. This indicates...
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under the name Van Diemen's Land (named after Anthony van Diemen) in 1825. Approximately 80,000 convicts were sent to Van Diemen's Land before this practice...
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of lyrics. The song "Van Diemen's Land" on the album Rattle and Hum by U2 uses a variation of the melody of "The Water Is Wide". The song "When the Pipers...
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of Van Diemen's land. From 1816, penal transportation to Australia increased rapidly and the number of free settlers grew steadily. Van Diemen's Land became...
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Knight rounded out the group. Highlights of the album include 'Van Diemen's Land', a song about poaching and deportation to what would eventually be called...
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This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some...
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Young Folk Award: Josie Duncan & Pablo Lafuente Best Original Song: If Wishes Were Horses - Kris Drever Best Traditional Track: Van Diemen's Land - Daoirí...
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west tip of Van Diemen's Land known as Cape Grim. Here they found that the Van Diemen's Land Company had appropriated a massive area of land for farmland;...
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The Black Velvet Band (category Irish folk songs)
the next day, and is sentenced to seven years penal servitude in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania); as at this point in time Australia was being used as a...
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August 1829 in Recherche Bay off the British penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia). Convicts seized the brig Cyprus and sailed...
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"Het land van..." ("The country of...") is a Dutch song by Lange Frans & Baas B. The lyrics of this song discuss past and present social and political...
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Wilhelmus (redirect from WIlhelmus van Nassouwe ben ik, van Duitsen bloed)
with the „Horst-Wessel-Lied“. The melody is also used in the Swedish folk song "Ack, Göta konungarike [sv]" ("Alas, Gothic Kingdom"), written in 1626...
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arrested, tried for sedition and transported to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land) who continued to campaign against British rule in Ireland after moving...
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Ronnie Drew (album) (category 1970s folk album stubs)
Diddle" - 2:00 "Finnegan's Wake" - 2:05 "Master McGrath" - 3:14 "Van Diemen's Land" - 2:12 "A Bunch of Red Roses" - 2:11 "The Old Man" - 5:37 "D'Ya Remember...
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Transportation ballads (category Scottish folk songs)
Raeburn's Farewell" (Roud 600) – particularly popular in Scotland "Van Diemen's Land" (Roud 221 and 519, Laws L18) – recognized in two distinct versions...
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Jim Jones at Botany Bay (category Australian folk songs)
"Australian Folk Songs | Jim Jones at Botany Bay". "Sleeve notes to The Great Australian Legend, A Panorama of Bush Balladry and Song; A.L. Lloyd, Trevor...
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(Felix Pappalardi, Gail Collins) "Trip to Roscoff" (Christy Moore) "Van Diemen's Land" (Traditional; arranged by Christy Moore and Dónal Lunny) Christy...
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"Moreton Bay" is an Australian folk ballad. It tells of the hardship a convict experienced at penal settlements around Australia, in particular, the penal...
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AFC Ajax (section Club van 100)
Ajax fans' culture. At one point, ringtones of "Hava Nagila", a Hebrew folk song, could be downloaded from the club's official website. Beginning in the...
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focusses on back blocks of 1920s and 30s inner-city Melbourne while Van Diemen's Land focussed on larger events, such as the 1894 Australian shearers' strike...
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Walter Pardon (category English folk singers)
(Roud 1424) Farewell, My Own Dear Native Land - Songs of Exile & Emigration; Topic TSCD 654; "Van Diemen's Land" (Roud 221) Tonight I'll Make You My Bride...
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Street, Campbelltown. In 1980, the noted Cornish folk singer Brenda Wootton wrote and recorded the song "James Ruse" which uses as a chorus the last four...
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South Africa (redirect from Republiek van Suid-Afrika)
Archived from the original on 31 March 2023. Retrieved 2 April 2023. Diemen, Ethan van (4 March 2023). "Eskom sabotage: how cartels plunge South Africa into...
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eventually being found guilty and sentenced to be transported to Van Diemen's Land for seven years. The trials were reported in The Times in December...
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