The Irish in Popular Literature in the Early American Republic: Paddy WhackingThis anthology collects and organizes the multiform depictions of the Irish from 1786 to 1840, in a volume that establishes the origins of the American cultural fixation on representations of the Irish. |
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An orator in the Irish House of Commons was describing the inordinate love of praise which characterised an opponent : " The honorable Member , " said he , " is so fond of being praised , that I really believe he would be content to ...
An orator in the Irish House of Commons was describing the inordinate love of praise which characterised an opponent : " The honorable Member , " said he , " is so fond of being praised , that I really believe he would be content to ...
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Then very likely you won't believe I was driving a noddy past dis very spot last Saturday night at twelve o'clock , and I saw a great big white cock ghost sitting upon the church wall . " " Ay - and what was it like ?
Then very likely you won't believe I was driving a noddy past dis very spot last Saturday night at twelve o'clock , and I saw a great big white cock ghost sitting upon the church wall . " " Ay - and what was it like ?
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their heads to pull down the houses of their equally peaceable Irish brethren , —a very innocent diversion , no doubt , but , we believe , contrary to statute . " The Irish in Boston ! I looked at them too ; there are said to be about ...
their heads to pull down the houses of their equally peaceable Irish brethren , —a very innocent diversion , no doubt , but , we believe , contrary to statute . " The Irish in Boston ! I looked at them too ; there are said to be about ...
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