(William) Percy French (født 1. maj 1854, død 24. januar 1920) var en af Irlands mest populære sangskrivere/tekstforfattere på sin tid og er senere også blevet kendt for sin akvareller.
Sange
French bliver krediteret for følgende sang:[2]
- Abdul Abulbul Amir (1877)
- Andy McElroe (1888)
- Are Ye Right There Michael? (1897)
- Come Back, Paddy Reilly, to Ballyjamesduff (1912)
- The Darlin' Girl from Clare
- Donegan's Daughter (1908)
- Drumcolligher
- Eileen Oge (The Pride of Petravore or McGrath the Cattle-Jobber)
- The Emigrants's Letter (Cutting the Corn in Creeslough) (1910)[3]
- Father O'Callaghan (1910)
- Fighting McGuire
- Flanagan's Flying Machine (1911)
- The Fortunes of Finnegan
- The Girl on a Big Black Mare
- The Hoodoo (1910)
- I Fought a Fierce Hyena
- Jim Wheelahan's Automobeel
- The Kerry Courting (1909)
- The Killyran Wrackers (1914)
- Kitty Gallagher
- Larry Mick McGarry (1915)
- Little Brigid Flynn
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- Maguire's Motor Bike (1906)
- The Mary Ann McHugh
- Mat Hannigan's Aunt (1892)
- McBreen's Heifer
- The Mountains of Mourne (1896)
- Mick's Hotel
- Mrs Brady (1907)
- Mulligan's Masquerade
- The Night that Miss Cooney Eloped
- No More of Yer Golfin' for Me (1906)
- The Oklahoma Rose (1910)
- Phil the Fluther's Ball
- Pretendy Land (1907)
- Rafferty's Racin' Mare (1906)
- A Sailor Courted a Farmer's Daughter (parodi på en folkesang)
- Slattery's Mounted Foot (1889)
- Sweet Marie
- Tullinahaw (1910)
- When Erin Wakes (1900)
- Whistlin' Phil McHugh
- Who Said the Hook Never Hurted the Worms?
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