Unpublished Verse in Memory of Sarah Curran (Mrs. Sturgeon) by Rev. John Chetwode (c 1740-1814)

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Her Father:

A Rhyming Invitation sent by John Philpot Curran (1750-1817) to Grandfather of Robert Carey, Skibbereen.

By a Quinquagenarian, the Pre 1797 Four Courts at Christchurch, Dublin, Hell and ‘Our Four Courts, thank the Genius of our Isle, is still full of business; and as long as Erin remains the land of Ire, so long surely will Lawyers fatten, and Attorneys Batten on the Quarrelsome and Litigious Propensities of Our People, Big Bully Egan, Little Philpot Curran, Black Jack Fitzgibbon, Henry Grattan, Ned Lysaght, Lord Yelverton..

John Philpot Curran and the Miller’s dog