Irish poet, singer and songwriter (1779–1852)

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Liberal and radical politicians as ballad singers (Thomas Wakley, Charles Buller, D. W. Harvey, Joseph Hume, Lord Brougham and J.A. Roebuck) sing a song sympathetic to Canadian rebels below the window of John Bull, who proposes to drench them with the contents of the house pail. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.

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