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The or A '''"Last Hurrah"''', used as a [[Noun]], means a final appearance or effort, especially at the end of a [[career]].
 
The or A '''"Last Hurrah"''', used as a [[Noun]], means a final appearance or effort, especially at the end of a [[career]].
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There is also a critically acclaimed move with this title "[[The Last Hurrah]]", based upon a [[novel]] by American writer [[Edwin O'Connor]].
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There is also a critically acclaimed move with this title ''The Last Hurrah'', based upon a [[novel]] by American writer [[Edwin O'Connor]].
    
The earliest written citation of the noun phrase in Google Books was by British writer John Shipp (1784-1834).  The name of the work was "Paddy and the French Cavalry", retelling an incident allegedly occuring at the [[Battle of Waterloo]] in a very short account in ''The Military Bijou or the Contents of a Soldier's Knapsack Being the Gleanings of Thirty-Three Years Active Service'' from 1831 (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co.), p. 186.
 
The earliest written citation of the noun phrase in Google Books was by British writer John Shipp (1784-1834).  The name of the work was "Paddy and the French Cavalry", retelling an incident allegedly occuring at the [[Battle of Waterloo]] in a very short account in ''The Military Bijou or the Contents of a Soldier's Knapsack Being the Gleanings of Thirty-Three Years Active Service'' from 1831 (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co.), p. 186.
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