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2 unusual facts about Handy Andy


Charles Ingle

On 24 January 1876, Ingle portrayed Squire O'Grady in an adaptation of Samuel Lover's Handy Andy, despite the fact that he "didn't know a line of the part".

Samuel Lover

He also wrote novels, of which Rory O'Moore (in its first form a ballad), and Handy Andy are the best known, and short Irish sketches which, with his songs, he combined into a popular entertainment called Irish Nights.


The Adam and Joe Show

By the fourth series, the segment had become a parody of Omnibus, with Korda fronting overly serious profiles of minor television celebrities including Pat Sharp and Handy Andy.


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