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Dancing Billy Goat Hircus and Irish Christmas Farce
Christmas Eve in an Irish American home. Patrick Doolan recounts teaching a billy goat named Hircus to dance for a theater crowd in the Bronx. The tale covers years of hard work, a $300 weekly return rumor, and the goat’s astonishing performances with cabbage and sugar treats, ending with a comic onlookers’ awe at the goat’s aerial spins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Jarrold
Patrick Doolan
Dick Walsh
Flaherty
Judy
Jack Doolan
Doolan
Mr. Doolan
Mrs. Reagan
Dougherty
Cassidy
Wlaherty
Ellen
Hircus
Judy Callahan
Reagan
Bronx
Gan