On Wednesday, December 4th 2019 John Burkhalter of the Practitioners of Musick in association with the Museum of the American Revolution exhibition presented an illustrated lecture focusing attention on the rich array of theatre and musical activity in Dublin during the the time of Richard St. George, an Irish artist and officer in the BritishArmy. His dramatic story was the focus of the Museum’s first international loan exhibition “The Cost of Revolution” charting the dramatic story of St. George whose life was entangled in the histories of the American Revolution of 1776 and the Irish Revolution of 1798.
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