Ireland.- Royal Circus, Foster-Place, A Dramatic Olio, called The Union, or Ierne Divided...Patriotism, or The Safeguard of Ireland...[Anti-union propaganda in the form of a parodic playbill], printed playbill, very small rust-hole not affecting text, some creasing, 388 x 170mm., [Dublin], 22nd January [?1799].
⁂ The 'performance' includes "The Learned Pig, and the Dancing Dogs", "Egyptian Pyramids, or the method of placing People over one another's Heads", and concludes with "the grand Chorus of Rule Britannia, And the celebrated Tunes of Paddy Whack and Erin Go Bragh, With new Accompaniments on the Irish Harp...performed in a miner Key".
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