The Shaughraun
The Shaughraun - This image was published by the firm of Currier & Ives who operated
in New York from 1834 to 1907. It ostensibly illustrates act
II, scene I of THE SHAUGHRAUN, the play by Dion Boucicault which
premiered in New York in November 1874.
In fact it is based on a painting by Daniel Maclise (1806-1870) entitled
“Snap Apple Night”, which Maclise painted in 1833, basing it on a
scene he witnessed the year before in Bantry, co. Cork.
The detail of one of the company holding a drink to the lips of the
piper is found in other 19th c. paintings and appears to have been a
not uncommon witticism.
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