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7 5 22 20111214 22 and Mr. Dom. Brown’s Mare Small Hopes, and won by the former. Faulkiner’s Dublin Journal, 10–13 September 1743. The losing owner, Dominick Browne (d.1776) of Ashford, co. Galway, was the ancestor of the Lords Oranmore and Browne of Castlemac- garret, co. Mayo. He conformed to the Estab- lished Church in 1754 and succeeded his father at Castlemacgarret in 1755. 6 Further references occur to this horse. On 9 July 1744 Larry Grogan, described as a chest- nut stallion, was second in a race for a £40 purse at Castlebar, co. Mayo. He also ran four heats at the same meeting for a £30 prize on 14 July, coming third in heat 1, second in heat 2, and first in heats 3 and 4. His owner is given as ‘Mr. Quin’ – Windham Quin of Adare, co. Limerick, father of the 1st earl of Dunraven? – while Pierce Creagh’s name is attached to an unnamed chestnut mare, obviously a simple mix-up. On 27 August Larry Grogan was sec- ond in both heats of a race for a £20 prize at Tuam, co. Galway. In Galway itself on 1 Oc- tober, he came third in the first of two heats of a £20 plate, but fell in the second: ‘Mr. Creagh’s Ches. H. Larry Grogan, full aged, fell in the second Heat.’ A later horse called Larry Grogan, a black stallion – ‘Mr. Brunton’s b. h. Larry Grogan’ – was second in both heats of a £20 purse for four- and five-year old horses at Carrickmacross, co. Monaghan, on 3 October 1769. 8 Grogan’s musical colleague in the Conniving House also had a racehorse named after him, or rather after the tune to which he gave his name. The popularity of ‘Jack Lattin’ in the north of England has already been touched on, and one of the runners at a race meeting in Morpeth, Northumberland, on 21 June 1738, was ‘Mr. Watson’s Bay H. Jack-a-Latton.’ He came fifth out of six in the first of three heats of a race for four-year olds with a prize of 15 guineas, but was disqualified in the second and third. 9 ‘Jack-a-Latton’ is one of the numerous variants of the title found in contemporary col- lections in England and Scotland. ‘DANCING LARRY GROGAN’: FROM PHILADEL- PHIA TO CINCINNATI, VIA PITTSBURGH, AUGUST– SEPTEMBER 1791. As already mentioned, Jack Lattin is said to have died after a marathon dance undertaken for a bet in co. Kildare. The memory of his death combined with the tune named after him in local folklore in the phrase ‘I’ll make you dance Jack Lattin’, a threat of a beating current down to the late nineteenth century which has been immortalised by James Joyce in Ulysses (1922). 10 ‘Larry Grogan’ was used in the same sense in a journal kept by Captain Samuel Newman of the 2nd Regiment of the United States Army between July and October 1791. 11 The journal covered the march of Newman’s company of regular soldiers from Philadelphia to Pitts- burgh, and thence by boat down the Ohio River to Fort Washington. Cincinnati. The US gov- ernment was mustering a military force at Cincinnati to counter recent attacks by Indians on settlers along the Ohio frontier. The force was badly organised and incompetently led, and when it eventually ventured into Indian territory, it was annihilated on 4 November. Newman was killed in the battle, but had left his journal, with most of his possessions, at Fort Dawson ten days previously. 12 The journal is a grim record of desertion, drunkenness, and thievery, punished by whip- ping, placing in irons, and chaining to supply wagons. Newman, conscious of appearing cal- lous and deliberately cruel, defended himself on 17 August: – This part of my Journal should it ever fall into other hands than I now expect it will may strike y e . humane and susceptible heart with a contempt for me, & a degree of horror at y e . transaction! but let them be assur’d, that however refin’d

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