Broadside songs

(a) Extract from the New Statesman and Nation, 7 December 1935, p. 848

Mr. W.B. Yeats, Mr. F.R. Higgins and their musical editor, Mr. Arthur Duff, have been producing a monthly series of "Broadsides", published at the Cuala Press, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin, which are the most delightful and attractive things of their kind in existence, as far as my knowledge goes. Each Broadside contains two poems with their musical airs and two coloured drawings; they are issued at half a crown each in a limited edition of three hundred copies and may be obtained direct from the Cuala Press or ordered through any good bookseller. When the twelve months are completed at the end of this year it will be possible to obtain all twelve issues in a binding together with an extremely interesting introduction on Anglo-Irish ballads, written by Mr. Yeats and Mr. Higgins jointly. In the first seven numbers (January to July, 1935) which are already published the poems are either traditional or by Mr. Yeats, Mr. Higgins, or other Irish poets, and the musical airs are either old ones or newly composed by Mr. Arthur Duff.

W.J. Turner