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1780s-1790s. A large scrapbook from Ballyshannon of

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1780s-1790s. A large scrapbook from Ballyshannon of mainly Co Donegal, news cuttings and ephemera relating to Irish and world events in these tumultuous years. The scrapbook provides a detailed perspective of the preamble to 1798 with the "author" cataloguing the great events of the day including the mounting pressure in Ireland and the chaos in France as well as the minutiae of daily social life and includes the following: Robert Allingham is commissioned to the light cavalry, with an ink notation commenting on his inappropriate bulk for this appointment. Also inserted here, a detached playbill for a farce "Harlequin Triumphant, or A Frenchman in His Suds" being performed at the barracks; a rare contemporary listing of the Volunteer delegates at the Grand National Convention in 1783;.quips on the relationship between Grattan and Flood; a copy of Charles I's death warrant; "A Chronicle of Corruption"; a contemporary biography of George Washington; "An appeal to the independent men of Ireland"; an account of a case involving the Earl of Westmoreland and Napper Tandy; account of the arrest of Edmund Fitzgerald; calligrapher's advertising handbill from Ballyshannon; trials of Louis XVI; the assassination of Count Theobald Dillon in France.

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