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This work originally appeared in the Freeman's Journal in March 1880 titled 'A Conventicle Larrikin', with the author's name indicated as 'The Mopoke'. It subsequently appeared in Songs from the Mountains, titled 'A Hyde Park Larrikin'.
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This was one of several scathing satirical poems which Kendall wrote for the Freeman's Journal on the subject of sectarianism and religious hatred - here also see 'To the "Holy" Stiggins' and 'A Psalm for the Conventicle'.
It is unclear whether Kendall's target here is a particular individual, or whether his subject was a representative 'type', presumably inspired by the various militant anti-Catholic Protestant clergymen who were active in Sydney during the 1870s and 1880s. According to Reed (1966), the MS of the poem reveals that Kendall had considered two further alternative titles, 'The Chapel Larrikin' and 'The "Reverend" Doctor'. Unlike Kendall's other poems involving larrikins, this poem is not about larrikins per se.
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