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From: Dennis Ahern <>
Subject: Re: Excerpts from Irish newspapers
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:15:25 +0000 (UTC)


From The Cork Examiner, 11 March 1864 -

MR GEORGE HODSON.--On Monday evening additional
attraction was given by the appearance of Mr. George
Hodson, the well-known representative of Irish character,
in his entertainment, "Ireland and America." A beautifully
painted diorama of scenes in Ireland (those of the Lakes
of Killarney eliciting rounds of applause) passes before the
visitor, while Mr. Hodson, in the character of an Irish
guide, describes the views, and rattles on with a fund of
anecdote and song that keeps the audience in a continued
roar of laughter for nearly a couple of hours. Only an
Irishman can tell an Irish story, for none but the natives of
the Green isle can impart the true Irish flavour ; a better
narrator we don't know. "Handy Andy's Visit to the Post
Office," and the "Humours of Kilkenny Assizes," were
told with a raciness not to be surpassed. As a singer of
Irish songs he has few equals--"The Whistling Thief," a
song written by Lover expressly for Mr. Hodson, was
rapturously applauded. Utterly devoid of the slightest
tendency to coarseness, Mr. Hodson's entertainment
ought to be seen by all persons.--Sunderland Times.

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