| Introduction | | 1 | (9) |
| Glossary of Irish Idioms and Other Paddy Whacking Words | | 10 | (8) |
| Bulls, Boasts, and Blunders | | 18 | (69) |
| 1786 | |
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| 1789 | |
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| 1791 | |
| McNally a ``worthy son of Ireland'' |
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| Vestis handles his legs well |
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| 1792 | |
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| 1793 | |
| potatos boil well on Mercury |
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| 1794 | |
| inoculation won't take second time |
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| hanging, but it could be worse |
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| 1795 | |
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| African girl best of fair sex |
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| 1796 | |
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| bulls, and other horned creatures |
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| 1797 | |
| second son older than first |
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| ``nobody killed but yourself'' |
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| clothe a man with nakedness |
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| ``Teague's Insurance''/poem |
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| 1798 | |
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| fall would have killed him |
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| 1799 | |
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| 1800 | |
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| before they speak or walk |
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| 1801 | |
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| 1802 | |
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| 1803 | |
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| 1804 | |
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| wines before watering places |
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| 1806 | |
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| 1807 | |
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| ``I was hanged yesterday'' |
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| gunpowder cask, not whiskey |
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| 1808 | |
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| 1809 | |
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| 1810 | |
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| ``neither one nor t'other'' |
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| ``Antiquity of Irish Bulls'' |
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| ``nobody killed but yourself'' |
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| only Paddy and wife to wed |
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| ``if you can't read this'' |
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| years have more days in Ireland |
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| 1811 | |
| horse with foot in stirrup |
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| Hebrew bible begins at end |
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| 1812 | |
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| shook half the time each day |
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| 1813 | |
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| 1815 | |
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| 1818 | |
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| ``If I survived'' decapitation |
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| 1820 | |
| will end days where none die |
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| absent when tailor measured |
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| ``An Irish Sailor's Prayer'' |
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| 1821 | |
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| 1822 | |
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| wrong ``buoy'' thrown over |
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| 1823 | |
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| bachelor's ``wives and children'' |
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| shaved head confuses identity |
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| break his ``impenetrable head'' |
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| fortification is two twentifications |
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| shoes will go on after they're worn |
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| tries six to find a good wife |
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| ``Calculation'' of older/younger |
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| 1824 | |
| Cobbett's ``Incomparable Bull'' |
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| hole in ship's bottom lets water out |
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| eats oranges before mouth can open |
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| ``Paddy's Description of a Garret'' |
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| twenty miles is ten apiece |
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| will swap living for dead wife |
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| will fight for half a crown |
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| 1825 | |
| ``drives all before him'' |
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| names man threatened with public exposure |
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| faster watch better than clock |
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| won't see himself drowned |
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| 1826 | |
| won't awaken sleeping master |
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| 1827 | |
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| duck eggs hatch strange cocks |
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| ship bottoms upwards in paper |
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| ``A Sea Bull'' re towline |
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| 1828 | |
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| ``Idolatry'' in pun of calf/bull |
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| postoffice: brother has same name |
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| will end days where none die |
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| 1829 | |
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| 1830 | |
| would be dead longer if... |
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| squinting butcher's blow worries Pat |
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| 1831 | |
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| would be dead longer if... |
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| 1832 | |
| port, not ``ditto'' drunk |
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| 1833 | |
| smoking logs unfit for fire |
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| will live to see wife a widow |
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| 1834 | |
| postoffice: clerk can see name |
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| ``much as I could do to hold on'' |
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| ``Irishman's Notion of Hanging'' |
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| oyster soup made of clams |
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| 1835 | |
| belief is he'll never pay her |
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| 1837 | |
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| 1786 | |
| counsellor Cripes of Cork |
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| 1791 | |
| Nangle meets a simple lord |
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| 1794 | |
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| infernal area outside Boston |
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| ``And Bewitch the World with Pigmanship'' |
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| 1795 | |
| ``Hibernian Anecdote'' of Swift's shoemaker |
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| ``Anecdote of Dean Swift'' |
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| 1796 | |
| horse runs away without him |
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| Murphy's accident on scaffold |
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| 1797 | |
| book not worth a farthing |
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| dogs, not stones are loose |
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| 1798 | |
| lord's blood less than hog's |
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| 1801 | |
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| ``Dialogue between an Irish Innkeeper and a Gentleman'' |
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| 1802 | |
| ``Phelim O'Flanagan to Henrietta''/poem |
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| 1803 | |
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| 1804 | |
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| 1806 | |
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| ``Irish Anecdote'' of Lord Townshend |
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| 1807 | |
| three Irish in New London |
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| 1809 | |
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| 1810 | |
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| daughter at ten thousand each |
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| 1811 | |
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| 1812 | |
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| ``National Gratitude'' sardonically repaid |
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| 1813 | |
| ``Curran's Repartee''/poem |
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| 1817 | |
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| 1818 | |
| ``Recollections of Curran'' |
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| abridgement/arch-way puns |
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| 1819 | |
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| 1821 | |
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| 1822 | |
| candles needed to see others burn |
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| leaves her ``the wide world'' |
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| ``An Anecdote Versified'' |
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| Matthews's story of porter |
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| ``can I marry two women'' |
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| ``Genuine Anecdote'' of drinking alone |
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| 1823 | |
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| ``you took me for a thief...'' |
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| ``Irish Times'' & red stockings |
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| will take ``yourself and a gold ring'' |
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| 1824 | |
| ass brays in court: Curran |
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| ``Drill'' for tall Irishman |
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| ``A Scalp More Useful than a Wreath of Laurel'' |
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| frog called a mouse to gain whiskey |
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| 1825 | |
| stockings ``holed on the other side'' |
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| oddity of Bishop of Derby |
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| ``kicking the cares of the world out of my doors'' |
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| ``An Irish Soldier's Contrivances'' |
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| 1826 | |
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| Reynold's ``Irish Humour'' |
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| prefers trial by twelve apostles |
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| 1827 | |
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| ``Irish Humour'' at Coughlan's trial |
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| ``Ingenious Defence'' of Pat Magraph |
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| ``An Irishman's Consolation to the Tired Traveller''/poem |
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| ``Advantage of Ignorance'' at postoffice |
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| 1828 | |
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| ``Original Anecdote'' of a ``dry'' inn |
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| ``Irish Wit'' of a ``century'' |
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| Colt kicks hard and not yet a horse |
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| ``slippery enough'' without being anointed |
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| ``Improved Fire-Arms'' to shoot round corners |
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| 1829 | |
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| ``An Irishman's Idea of Insurance'' |
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| ``Irish Wit'' not wanting |
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| 1830 | |
| ``A Good Hit'' on electioneering |
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| ``Irishman's Wit''/``where do you come from?'' variant |
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| 1831 | |
| ``A Serious Repartee''/pistols-for-two breakfast |
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| 1832 | |
| ``Original Anecdote''/``What will you take for those trout?'' |
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| 1833 | |
| elects a ``nachural death'' |
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| ``Mental Reservation'' in Shelah |
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| 1834 | |
| second month's fees cheaper |
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| 1837 | |
| ``Hibernian Humour'' in theatre galleries of Dublin |
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| 1838 | |
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| 1785 | |
| colonel & servant shoot candles |
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| 1786 | |
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| 1787 | |
| letter of wheel-barrow man |
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| 1788 | |
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| ``A Female Oddity'' Irished |
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| 1789 | |
| ``Morality of the Slave Trade'' |
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| 1790 | |
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| 1791 | |
| United Irishmen declaration |
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| 1792 | |
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| 1793 | |
| O'Hurley's description of the Irish |
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| Dublin thief begs to be arrested |
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| 1794 | |
| anecdote of a brave soldier |
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| 1795 | |
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| 1796 | |
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| ``The Pumpkin and the Paddy'' |
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| ``Curious Irish Love Letter'' |
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| Belfast Prognostication for 1788 |
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| 1797 | |
| ``An Extraordinary Legend'' |
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| ``Pathetic Address''/political |
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| ``Extract of a Letter''/political |
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| ``To Harrison Otis''/political |
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| ``Death Before Dishonor''/political |
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| Macarthy dead at 112 years |
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| 1798 | |
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| ``Sleep of Ireland''/political |
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| letter from Wexford/political |
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| ``The Sister Kingdom''/political |
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| 1800 | |
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| 1801 | |
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| Swift discharges his servant |
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| Catley's ``Night for the Dean'' |
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| 1802 | |
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| sight restored to illiterate woman |
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| ``Convenient Dining Table'' |
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| character reference contradicted |
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| 1803 | |
| bees delivered without hive |
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| ``Irish Schoolmaster's Rhetoric'' |
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| drum-stick recovered from well |
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| 1804 | |
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| man abducted in sister's place |
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| ``Provocation Upon Provocation'' |
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| 1805 | |
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| 1806 | |
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| 1807 | |
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| Carr describes Irish ladies |
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| 1808 | |
| ``Extraordinary Impostor''/William Green |
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| ``White Ghosts in Ireland'' |
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| ``Civilization''/rape club |
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| 1809 | |
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| 1810 | |
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| ``fit for the steeple'' says Princess Amelia |
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| 1811 | |
| dog sewn in skin of another |
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| 1812 | |
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| ``Sketch of the Irish Ladies'' |
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| 1814 | |
| mortars of a different kind |
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| 1818 | |
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| ``Whimsical Advertisement'' |
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| 1821 | |
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| 1823 | |
| ``Irishman's Description of the English Peasantry'' |
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| ``Irish Journey Up the Country'' |
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| ``Hibernia's Tears''/poem by Woodworth |
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| ``Lord Norbury and the Irish Miracle'' |
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| 1824 | |
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| 1825 | |
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| ``Irish Method of Finding a Verdict'' |
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| ``Practical Blunder...Robber'' |
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| 1826 | |
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| ``Hints to My Countrymen'' |
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| 1827 | |
| ``Irish and Scotch Cleanliness'' |
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| ``The Irish Exile's Dream''/poem |
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| ``Benefits of Perseverance'' |
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| ``Paddy's Ride on the Railway'' |
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| 1828 | |
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| ``Irish Resurrection Men'' |
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| ``Bridal Customs of the Irish'' |
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| ``Song of the Irish Patriot'' |
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| 1829 | |
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| 1830 | |
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| ``Portrait of an Irish Beauty'' |
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| 1831 | |
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| ``Simplicity of Goldsmith'' |
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| 1832 | |
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| ``An Irish Court''/Judge Hill |
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| 1833 | |
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| ``Irish Peasantry'' by Lady Blessington |
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| 1834 | |
| ``A Portrait After Anacreon''/poem |
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| ``Confessions of an Irish Peasant'' |
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| ``An Irish Pilot'' by M.G. Lewis |
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| 1835 | |
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| ``Comforts of an Irish Cottage'' |
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| 1836 | |
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| ``Patrick and Kathleen''/poem |
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| 1839 | |
| ``Desultory Sketch of the Irish Character,'' partly from W. Carleton |
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| ``Genuine Eloquence'' by Leitch |
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| ``National Characteristics'' |
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| ``Ireland''/poem by John Newland Maffit |
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| 1845 | |
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| 1792 | |
| ``Provincial Honors to an Exciseman'' Hugh H. Brakenridge |
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| 1795 | |
| ``The Hospitble Hibernian; or, the Irishman's Cabin'' Thomas Dibdin |
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| 1803 | |
| Parody of Sentimental Tale |
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| 1813 | |
| ``Kate Kearney of the Lake of Kilarney'' |
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| 1820 | |
| ``The Broken Heart'' Washington Irving |
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| 1821 | |
| Portrait of Betty Flanagan James F. Cooper |
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| 1827 | |
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| ``An Irish Tale'' The Changeling |
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| 1829 | |
| ``Mary Clavery's Story'' Mrs. S. C. Hall |
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| 1830 | |
| ``Memoirs of a Bashful Irishman'' |
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| 1831 | |
| ``An Irish Story'' Samuel Lover |
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| ``An Irish Story'' The Piana-forty |
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| 1832 | |
| ``An Incident or Two in the Life of Paddy Keenaghan'' |
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| 1834 | |
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| 1837 | |
| ``The Irishman in Egypt'' |
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| 1840 | |
| ``Advice of an Irish Fairy'' |
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| ``An Irish Tale: The Unlucky Gift'' |
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| Index of Authors, Settings, and Subjects | | 387 | (5) |
| Register of Magazines and Extracts | | 392 | |
