Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Philpot Curran NPG 379

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

Curran was known as one of the finest orators of his day. He was elected to the Irish Parliament in 1783 where he was a passionate advocate of Catholic emancipation. During the 1790s, he acted as defence counsel in almost all the trials of leading radicals from the Society of United Irishmen, including Archibald Rowan in 1792, Wolfe Tone in 1798 and James Napper Tandy in 1800. His daughter was secretly engaged to their Radical colleague Robert Emmett; an arrangement Curran... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.