Play · 1904 · The Pot of Broth
Note on the Music
The words and the air of “There’s Broth in the Pot” were taken down from an old woman known as Cracked Mary, who wanders about the plain of Aidhne, and who sometimes sees unearthly riders on white horses coming through stony fields to her hovel door in the night time.
Text: The Hour-Glass; Cathleen ni Houlihan; The Pot of Broth, Plays for an Irish Theatre, volume II (A. H. Bullen, London, 1904), transcribed from the Internet Archive scan hourglasscathlee00yeatuoft. Public domain.