to London around 1900 and lived at St John's Wood. Songs The following songs are attributed to Percy French: 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) 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 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 (parody of the folk song) Slattery's Mounted Foot (1889) Sweet Marie Tullinahaw (1910) When Erin Wakes (1900) Whistlin' Phil McHugh Who Said the Hook Never Hurted the Worms? Operatic works Collaborations with William Houston Collisson (1865–1920) The Knight of the Road (1891), later known as The Irish Girl (published c. 1918) Strongbow (1892) Midsummer Madness (1892) Noah's Ark (1906) Freda and the Fairies Art Artworks by French have increased in value. On 20 September 2005, the Percy French watercolour landscape Where ever I go my heart turns back to the County Mayo was sold by Dublin auctioneers Whyte's for a then record price of €44,000. It is also known as "The Iveagh Percy French" as it came from the Guinness family collection. The story goes that the purchaser had "buyer's remorse", and the painting was purchased immediately by a gallerist. Some ten days after this auction, the Apollo Gallery sold this iconic painting on to an American collector for €65,000. A comprehensive biography of French, focusing on his paintings, Lead Kindly Light, was produced and written by Oliver Nulty of the Oriel Gallery in 2002, the culmination of his life's work promoting French at a time of official neglect. Bernadette Lowry edited the publication and contributed the essay "Percy French in a Wider Cultural Context", which assessed the wider cultural significance of French, especially