The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-17
THE FAIR FIELD.
The Most Prominent Irishman in Chicago.


race is discovered and crowned guravely speaking with
golden honors For years. the great question: Who a the
most prominent H1hnan Chicago has kept the country in
terrible state of suspense 1t has been definitely settled at
last 80 order gns in America more"
In the West Division of good city, there is structure
called The Rink" In winter sused for skating in
mer for Fairs So that at you have ice to your
heels and at the other season. cream your heart
AT Fair held in the Rink few ago. for the benefit
OF one of churches the happy idea of discovering the
most popular and polite and perfect shman conceved
and carry out the beautiful conception the end "Sh
lelah naey tipped with good by apers chosen the
medium. No sooner was the matter preached than the
greatest possible enthusiasm seized the entire parish and
when the stick brought amid the hurras of the men,
and the waving of the snowwhe cambria handkerchie of
the ladies' the of very peculiarly ndecrbabe
beauty and historical incident worhyto be recorded on
and the tablet with the landing of Milesus
Dnny Buckley dancing the Garden of Daisies, ON barn
door at the Fair of Donnybrook, in the county of Dublin
The house divided and ranged itself under the banners of two
cheas hurrah for the oud times and the contest waxed
warm and furious for three days and four nights.
One of the candidates was the language of the oppos
ton "a Black Republican and cowld wather the
other who "nivvir split tck" and of of
the liquor persuasion The temperance led his opponent
handsomely for the first days. and only the third
day and night when the parish became aroused the
si Of saving its fair and HONOR that the lovers of
good drink to the rescue and carried all before them
The whole thing ended without serious results though
the hour of twelve Saturday night things looked little
tichth
few explanations the poem which produced by
ope of the lady parishioner and is written in lively and
goodnaured view throughout. Mr. Fitz chair playing
the fiddle surrounded by about eighty couples dancing
will explain the ne"T u heard the sic you he
there"
The Fair gladto record was success netting
thousand doarshe Stick" turning in two thou
sand Many got excited that they spent the last cent
rather than the cowld waher win it." One
spent dollars which he had reserved for his months
There is way you get the money Of good
people freely to get them excited and take them
.se hop:
THE GOLDEN SHILLELAH.
AIR: "T'he Darling Ould Shck."
Souls of the bards, whose sublime inspiration
Was drank from the fountain of pure Imishown;
Chetans who shattered the heads of the nation
With knotted shillelahs, long fallen, mavrone
Arise from your graves smohered up in the daisies,
And lend me what famous and light we spare,
We'll share all the gory) till sing the praises
Of the hayroes who figured at Keelumcul Fair.
The month July, and the year, sixty-seven;
The city, Chicago; the fair field rink;
The tents sprod round every morning and ev'n
With plenty fine ating and lashings O drink.
On chair on the fure Mr.. Fitz pied the fiddle;
Though you heard not the music you he there;
And, as you looked up you saw hung from the middle
The glory and beauty of Keelumculls Fair.
The girls were there wearing cheeks like red roses
. Tinct by the same hand that colored the rose;
With black and blue eyes, and with all kinds of noses
: sRattraps of Cupid for catching the beaus.
But their gances fell cold and their bright smiles were
wasted,
For high hung the beauty could bother dull care;
And all the good things, the DROP untasted
For this darn' ould stick at the Keelumcull Fair
:" Isn't she nate bit of flesh, Misther Connor?
& How finely she tapers from shoulder to toe!
How we'll they become her. those goold bands upon her
Joy be wild the green elsewhere the backthorns grow
remember the time when my uncle, Tim DAILY,