Irish Wit And Humor

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Author

Anonymous

Title

Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell

Credits

Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Ted Garvin and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Europe at dp.rastko.net (produced from page scans provided by the Digital and Multimedia Center, Michigan State University Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Anecdotes -- Ireland

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Text

eBook-No.

19220

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19220

Release Date

September 8, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.IRISH WIT AND HUMOR,
2. 2.ANECDOTE BIOGRAPHY — OF — SWIFT, CURRAN, O'LEARY AND O'CONNELL.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.DEAN SWIFT. — HIS BIRTH. — SINGULAR EVENT. — A CERTIFICATE OF MARRIAGE. — GRACE AFTER DINNER. — THE THREE CROSSES. — TO THE LANDLORD. — CHIEF JUSTICE WHITSHED. — CHIEF JUSTICE WHITSHED'S MOTTO ON HIS COACH. — ON THE SAME UPRIGHT CHIEF JUSTICE WHITSHED. — TO QUILCA. — MR. PULTENEY. — RESOLUTIONS WHEN I COME TO BE OLD. — MISS BENNET. — THE FEAST OF O'ROURKE. — SWIFT'S BEHAVIOR AT TABLE. — COUNTESS OF BURLINGTON. — SWIFT'S POLITICAL PRINCIPLES. — SWIFT'S CHARITY. — PUBLIC ABSURDITIES IN IRELAND. — SWIFT'S PECULIARITY OF HUMOR. — DR. BOLTON. — THE SCRIBLERUS CLUB. — THE UPSTART. — MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK. — COSSING A DOG. — TRADE OF IRELAND. — A BEGGAR'S WEDDING. — THE PIES. — SHORT CHARITY SERMON. — A COURTIER'S RETORT. — LYING. — DR. SACHEVERELL. — TAXING THE AIR. — WISDOM. — EPITAPH ON JUDGE BOAT. — ON STEPHEN DUCK, THE THRESHER AND FAVORITE POET. — DIALOGUE BETWEEN SWIFT AND HIS LANDLORD. — ROGER COX. — ROGER AND THE POULTRY. — KELLY THE BLACKSMITH. — BIRTH-DAY PRESENTS. — TO DR. SWIFT, WITH A PAPER BOOK, BY JOHN, EARL OF ORRERY — VERSES LEFT WITH A SILVER STANDISH ON THE DEAN'S DESK, BY DR. DELANY. — VERSES BY SWIFT, ON THE OCCASION. — THE DEAN'S CONTRIBUTORY DINNER. — SWIFT AND BETTESWORTH. — SWIFT AMONG THE LAWYERS. — PREACHING PATRIOTISM. — SWIFT AND HIS BUTLER — HIS SATURNALIA. — THE DEAN AND FAULKNER. — SWIFT, ARBUTHNOT, AND PARNELL. — DEAN SWIFT AND THE PREACHER WHO STOLE HIS SERMON. — SWIFT'S QUEER TESTIMONIAL TO HIS SERVANT. — SWIFT AT THOMASTOWN. — SWIFT'S LAST LINES.
5. 5.JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN. — HIS BIRTH. — CURRAN AS PUNCH'S MAN. — CURRAN AT A DEBATING SOCIETY. — CURRAN AND THE BANKER. — HIS DUEL WITH ST. LEGER. — THE MONKS OF THE SCREW. — LORD AVONMORE. — HIS FIRST CLIENT. — CURRAN AND THE INFORMER. — LORD CLARE. — CURRAN'S ELOQUENCE. — SCENE BETWEEN FITZGIBBON AND CURRAN IN THE IRISH PARLIAMENT. — HIS DEFENCE OF ARCHIBALD HAMILTON ROWAN. — ENCOUNTER WITH A FISHWOMAN. — CURRAN AND LORD ERSKINE. — HIS DUEL WITH BULLY EGAN. — MASSY VERSUS HEADFORT. — THE SERENADING LOVER. — EMPLOYMENT OF INFORMERS. — CURRAN AND THE FARMER. — CURRAN AND THE JUDGE. — CURRAN'S QUARREL WITH FITZGIBBON. — HIGH AUTHORITY. — USE OF RED TAPE. — CURRAN AND THE MASTIFF.
6. 6.ARTHUR O'LEARY. — HIS CONTROVERSY WITH AN INFIDEL. — HIS INTERVIEW WITH DR. MANN. — CONTROVERSY WITH JOHN WESLEY. — MEETING OF O'LEARY AND WESLEY. — DR. O'LEARY AND FATHER CALLANAN. — O'LEARY AND THE QUAKERS. — HIS RECEPTION AT THE ROTUNDO BY THE VOLUNTEERS. — O'LEARY AND JOHN O'KEEFE. — O'LEARY AND THE IRISH PARLIAMENT. — HIS INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL DANSER. — A FOP. — HIS PERSON AND MODE OF ARGUMENT. — O'LEARY AND "CAPTAIN ROCK." — LOTS DRAWN TO HAVE HIM AT DINNER. — O'LEARY AND THE RECTOR. — LADY MORGAN. — A BATCH OF INTERESTING ANECDOTES. — A DOG'S RELIGION. — HOWARD, THE PHILANTHROPIST, AND MR. HENRY SHEARS. — HIS HABITS OF STUDY—HIS INFLUENCE. — EDMOND BURKE. — HIS CHARITY. — O'LEARY VERSUS CURRAN. — HIS TRIUMPH OVER DR. JOHNSON. — A NOLLE PROSEQUI. — THE PRINCE OF WALES. — THE CLOSING SCENES OF HIS LIFE.
7. 7.DANIEL O'CONNELL. — DARBY MORAN. — A DEAD MAN WITH LIFE IN HIM. — A YOUNG JUDGE DONE. — O'CONNELL AND A SNARLING ATTORNEY. — HIS ENCOUNTER WITH BIDDY MORIARTY. — O'CONNELL AND A BILKING CLIENT. — SOW-WEST AND THE WIGS. — ELECTION AND RAILWAY DINNERS. — SCENE AT KILLINEY. — AN INSOLENT JUDGE. — A WITNESS CAJOLED. — HIS DUEL WITH CAPTAIN D'ESTERRE. — O'CONNELL AND SECRETARY GOULBURN. — ENTRAPPING A WITNESS. — GAINING OVER A JURY. — PADDY AND THE PARSON. — A MARTIAL JUDGE. — RETENTIVE MEMORY. — A POLITICAL HURRAH AT A FUNERAL. — REFUSAL OF OFFICE. — A MISTAKEN FRENCHMAN. — EPISTOLARY BORES. — SIR R. PEEL'S OPINION OF O'CONNELL. — FOOTNOTES:

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