Victorian Irish St. Patrick's Day Greeting Card with Harp Player

The card promises that 'no earthly power' can part you from your sweet Irish memories, which is either deeply romantic or a restraining order waiting to happen — especially since a green-clad Irish woman in a voluminous skirt serenades absolutely no one with a gold-trimmed harp while a ghostly white silhouette of a smaller figure lurks directly behind her like the ghost of Irish guilt past. A white shamrock on the lower left has been sliced into three labeled lobes reading 'DEAR,' 'IRISH,' and 'MEMORIES' — because nothing says heartfelt sentiment like a dissected clover. The oversized dark green four-leaf shamrock dominating the right half bellows 'ERIN GO BRAGH' in gold lettering, suggesting that whoever designed this card decided subtlety was for the English, all combining to evoke somewhere between a Renaissance faire and a nervous breakdown.