Old Ireland's Misery at the end: or, The English Empire in the Brazil's Restored. Being the Second Appearance of the Inchanted Lady, who appeared the 5th Day of June, 1752, in the Form of a Mermaid, on a Sand Bank, in the Harbour of Lougres, and Parish of Endeskeale, North-West of the County of Donegall, in Ireland, as was seen and heard by Thomas White, John Brown, and William Cunningham, who were coming up the Channel in a small Fishing Boat

[1752?] Old Ireland’s Misery at the end: or, The English Empire in the Brazil’s Restored. Being the Second Appearance of the Inchanted Lady, who appeared the 5^th Day of June, 1752, in the Form of a Mermaid, on a Sand Bank, in the Harbour of Lougres, and Parish of Endeskeale, North-West of the County of Donegall, in Ireland, as was seen and heard by Thomas White, John Brown, and William Cunningham, who were coming up the Channel in a small Fishing Boat. Newport, [RI]: Np. 6 pp. Evans Early American Imprints 1.40634. Also published Boston, MA: Np, [1752]. According to Michael Griffin in “Offshore Irelands; or, Hy-Brazil-Hybridized.” Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and Historiography. Ed. Eóin Flannery and Angus Mitchell (Dublin: Four Courts, 2007), 130-41 the author may have been Rev. James MacSporran (1693-1757).

The last page depicts a very brief eutopian future for Ireland as a Christian country under England, with no taxes or duties and all the Irish who had immigrated returned.