PROPAGANDA: Re-imagining the Conquest: contested histories
By Clare O’Halloran In 1777, a performance of John O’Keeffe’s comedy ‘The Shamrock, or St Patrick’s Day’ at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin concluded with a ‘festive choral procession and pageant’ led by the ‘kings of Leinster, Munster, and Connaught; Strangbow [sic], earl of Pembroke; de Courcy, baron of Kingsale [sic]; Sitric, king of … Read more