<p>For about 300 years Dubliners have been creating ballads, 'rec-im-itations' and parodies ? commenting in verse form ? with a mischievous disregard for both the laws of libel and the canons of poetry ? on everything from social events, public affairs, the city's monuments and institutions, politics, murder cases and sporting events, to their fellow citizens and street characters.<br>Many of the ballads, in addition to showing the Dubliner's ins...