Irish gentleman in Crofton’s whisky and beer bar in Dublin prison, 1821. Bankrupt Brian Boru with his friends in the taproom drinking with criminals and debtors. The Tap in Sheriff’s Prison. 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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