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 & 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.

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