Gentleman crashing a carriage in a Belfast street, 1822

Brian Boru in top hat and cockle-picker Peg O'Shambles crashing a two-horse carriage in a Belfast street, 1822. Hawkers knocked on the street, urchins eating potatoes, a man with shillelagh. Brian Boru's Entrance into Belfast. Sign for Watson's Carver and Gilder shop. Handcoloured engraving from Pierce Egan's Real Life in Ireland, or the Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles, and Sprees, Bulls, Blunders, Bodderation and Blarney, of Brian Boru Esq. and his Elegant Friend Sir Shawn O'Dogherty, published by William Evans, London, 1829

1822 Baggot Blarney Blunders Bodderation Boru Bulls Capt Crashing Egan Jingle Kettlewell Odogherty Paddy Poll Rambles Rovings Shawn Sprees

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