Project Gutenberg 2025-06-16 Public domain in the USA. 152 Macklin, Charles 1797 The true-born Irishman : $b or, Irish fine lady : a comedy of two acts $aDublin :$bThe Booksellers [Association of Great Britain and Ireland], $c1783. Chris Hapka and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The true-born Irishman : or, Irish fine lady : a comedy of two acts by Macklin" is a satirical stage comedy written in the late 18th century. The play skewers fashionable pretension and social climbing in Dublin, lampooning anglicized airs, reckless gambling, and marital folly, while contrasting sturdy Irish plain-dealing with imported vanity. Country gentleman Murrogh O’Dogherty laments that his wife, newly back from London and rebranded “Mrs. Diggerty,” has caught the “fine lady” fever—aping English speech, chasing titles, and losing money at cards with Lady Kinnegad, Lady Bab Frightful, and their set. An English coxcomb, Count Mushroom, also Lord Old-Castle’s agent, tries to seduce her to sway lease terms, but O’Dogherty and the maid Katty intercept his letters and answer in her name to entrap him. At a bustling evening of gaming, O’Dogherty’s brother, Counsellor Hamilton, shocks Mrs. Diggerty into repentance with a blunt warning about her reputation. The husband forgives her and bids farewell to French cooks and London affectations. Finally, Mushroom arrives in women’s clothes for an assignation, is terrified by O’Dogherty’s feigned jealousy and pistol, and, in a panic, hides in a portmanteau. The company exposes and parades him for ridicule, and the play ends with the coxcomb punished and the “Irish fine lady” reclaimed to sense. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-true-born-irishman-_macklin-charles_1783 20231123011653macklin 1783 IE Reading ease score: 79.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Comedy plays English drama -- Irish authors PR Text Category: Humour Category: Plays/Films/Dramas Category: British Literature 173238 2025-07-30T07:41:42.083422 text/html 148236 2025-06-16T17:23:07 text/html 295128 2025-07-30T07:41:47.883411 application/epub+zip 295365 2025-07-30T07:41:43.812368 application/epub+zip 137334 2025-07-30T07:41:42.945404 application/epub+zip 672120 2025-07-30T07:41:50.396342 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 635849 2025-07-30T07:41:47.144386 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 97568 2025-07-30T07:41:41.241395 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 77604 2025-06-16T17:23:07 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13998 2025-07-30T07:41:50.569348 application/rdf+xml 13862 2025-07-30T07:41:43.261368 image/jpeg 2380 2025-07-30T07:41:43.102416 image/jpeg 932914 2025-07-30T07:41:42.104417 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia