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After Taps

Chapter 7: Transcriber's Note
By Rachel Baker Gale
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About This Book

Set in Baltimore during the American Civil War, the three-act play follows a Union colonel and his household as military obligations, local loyalties, and personal affections collide. Action moves from an incident framed as a rear shooting through soldiers' camp life and evening reflection to a concluding homecoming. The drama alternates comic domestic scenes and marching-song pageantry with earnest wartime encounters involving officers, enlisted men, a contraband figure, and family members, emphasizing duty, reunion, and the interplay between public military service and private domestic bonds.

A NEW IRISH DRAMA
SHAMROCK AND ROSE,
A Romantic Story of Irish Life during the Rebellion of '98, in four acts.
By JOHN FITZGERALD MURPHY.

Seven male and three female characters. Costumes and scenery not difficult. Every part a good one. A sure hit. Printed as played under the author's personal direction, at the Dudley St. Opera House, Boston, St. John's Hall, Boston, and the Newport Opera House.

SYNOPSIS.

Act. I. Scene, Squire Fitzgerald's Home, in Wicklow. Rose's story of Desmond's arrival. Shaun Cary hears a bit of valuable news. Barney O'Brady meets an unexpected visitor and shows him the door. Ileen and Barney. The Fugitive. The arrival of the soldiers. Capt. Beck quarrels with the Squire. The defence. The murder. The Arrest.

Act. II. Scene I: A Landscape. Cary and the Captain plot the abduction of Rose. Douglass' dilemma 'twixt love and duty. Scene II: The Prison. Barney's cell. Hot Irish in a stone jug. A friend in need. The red coat. Scene III: Rose receives a false message. Scene IV: Desmond's cell. The Death Warrant. Celt and Saxon. Barney a guard. The death knell. The Escape.

Act III. Scene I: O'Byrnes' Wood. The purty girl milking her cow. Barney proposes to Ileen. Desmond hears bad news. Barney, in the guise of a soldier, gets important information from Cary. Scene II: Exterior of Beck's Castle by moonlight. Rose a Captive. Barney brings good news. The proposal and refusal. The ass kicks. The false captive. The Rescue.

Act IV. Scene: Corrigmór at Sunrise. Shaun Cary a captive. The arrival of Nano and Ileen. Tracked by Beck. Nano keeps Beck at Bay. The duel. Cary's shot. Becks death. The “Shamrock and Rose.”

Price, 25 cents.

Incidental to this piece occur the following new songs by Messrs. R. W. Lanigan and Leo. A. Munier, entitled

SHAMROCK AND ROSE.MY IRISH QUEEN.
MA BOUCHALEEN BAWN.

The three published together at 60 cents; obtainable only of the publishers.

For other novelties see the preceding page.
Walter H. Baker & Co., 23 Winter St., Boston.
S.J. PARKHILL & CO., PRINTERS, 222 FRANKLIN ST., BOSTON.

Transcriber's Note

What appeared to be clear typographical errors were corrected; any other mistakes or inconsistencies were retained.

Hyphenation was inconsistent in some cases; the inconsistencies were retained (e.g.: “body-guard” and “bodyguard”, “battlefield” and “battle-field”).

The author chose to have some characters in the play speaking in “dialect”. The way this dialect is spelled is inconsistent and this inconsistency was retained.

The advertisements for other plays on the last pages of this book were formatted inconsistently. Attempts were made to make formatting more consistent, while retaining its peculiarities.