Artist: Dominic Behan
Author: traditional
Label: Topic
Year: 1959

On lp Down By The Liffeyside as Waxy Dargell with Peggy Seeger, Leon Rosselson and Ralph Rinzler. To the tune of Brighton Camp, also used for The Girl I Left Behind (see: The Girl I Loved In Sunny Tennessee) and for The Rare Old Mountain Dew (first mentioned in 1810 in Hume's Pocket Book for German Flute or Violin).

River Dargle near Irishtown (between Ringsend and Sandymount) was a famous holiday resort for Dubliners, for waxies (shoemakers) in particular, say lower middle class in general. Makes Waxie's Dargle a cheap day out nearby and all-in: with music at the favorite picknick spot, drinking, cockles and mussels galore and boxing on banking holidays (Boxing Day!). There's a marker near Gleesons Pub in Irishtown. The Waxie's Dargle was mentioned in the Aeolus episode of James Joyce's Ulysses (1922).