Broadside handbill street-ballad entitled 'A New Song on the Glorious Victory of the Popes Brigade at Peruga' [sic, for 'Perugia']

Crudely printed on one side of a piece of wove paper, roughly 27 x 8 cm. Spotted and creased, but with no loss to text. Sixty lines of verse, beginning: 'Rejoice you sons of Erin's Isle, | Attention pay now for a while, | Those lines we'll surely make you smile, | Our brave brigade isvictorious. [sic] | The enemy they did subdue, | And fought them nine one its true, | There [sic] attitude was grand to view, | At the battle of Perugia.' Recounts how, 'Commanded by O'Reilly sure', the Brigade 'did floor, 1,500 of the Sardinian corps'. Reference to 'Brave Lamoricieuvet' [sic] and 'cursed Garibaldi'. A reference to 'the lieing [sic] TIMES' would appear to concern a letter reproduced in that newspaper, under the heading 'The Pope's Brigade', on 29 September 1860. The correspondent claims to have been one of 5,000 men, under General de Lamoricière, who were ranged against 32,000 Sardinians. The correspondent was forced to 'retreat', and then 'capitulate'. Scarce: the only copy on COPAC is at Trinity College, Dublin. See also 'Song on the Irish Brigade', 'By Thomas O'Carroll, Infield Bard', offered separately.