B'hoy and g'hal
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B'hoy and g'hal were the prevailing slang words used to describe the young men and women of the rough-and-tumble working class culture of Lower Manhattan in the late 1840s and into the period of the A
Mary Taylor and Frank Chanfrau as a Bowery g'hal and b'hoy in A Glance at New York.
Frank Chanfrau
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Francis S. Chanfrau was an American actor and theatre manager in the 19th century. He began his career playing bit parts and doing impressions of star actors such as Edwin Forrest and of ethnic groups
B'hoy and g'hal
…lad" and "young spark". The word originates from the Irish pronunciation of boy. The prototypical artistic representation of a b'hoy came in 1848, when Frank Chanfrau played the character Mose the Fireboy in Benjamin A. Baker's A Glance at New York. Mose is a pugilistic Irish volunteer fireman. T. Allston Brown gives…
Chanfrau as Mose, 1848
Frank Chanfrau