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Record 19885

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I wrote the following Ballad [abusing Mr Callaghan], and pacquetted Mr [italics]Taafe [end italics] with it [...] and threatened Mr [italics] Taafe [end italics], if he did not read it out, for the Amusement of the Company, he should be my next Subject for Satyr; but no body so earnestly insisted on seeing the Song as [italics] Callaghan [end italics] himself. To oblige him and entertain the Company, Mr [italics] Taafe [end italics] sung it to the Tune of [italics] Chevy Chace [end italics. The ballad is then reproduced] I have been credibly informed that this song made [italics] Callaghan [end italics] blush, which was more than any thing had ever done before. However he took a Copy of it, which he promised to publish; but finding he has not been as good as his Word, I must even be at the Expence of doing it my self'.
Century: 1700-1799
Date: From: 31 Dec 1737
Country: Ireland
Time: n/a
Place: city: Dublin
specific address: in a tavern
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader: Callaghan
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: attorney
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Ireland
Country of experience: Ireland
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Laetititia Pilkington
Title: Verses on Counsellor Callaghan
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: read in situ
then copied from another MS

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19885  
Source - Print  
  Author: Laetitia Pilkington
  Editor: A.C. Elias
  Title: Mempirs of Laetitia Pilkington
  Place of Publication: Athens GA
  Date of Publication: 1997
  Vol: I
  Page: 97-9
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Laetitia Pilkington, A.C. Elias (ed.), Mempirs of Laetitia Pilkington (Athens GA, 1997), I, p. 97-9, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19885, accessed: 27 April 2024

Additional comments:

Cornelius and Robert Callaghan are likely contenders to be this man

 

 

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