political cartoon / The New Papal Nuncio, 1888

Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 5 May 1888. Titled 'The New Papal Nuncio'. Depicting Balfour dressed in red clerical robes, showing a female Erin a decree from Rome. Erin stands with a crucifix and a document titled 'Land Agitation'. Balfour, who has got on a suit which is kept in the Castle for Chief Secretaries to wear on certain occasions, to Erin - 'Ha Ha! See what I have got over from Rome. Now, I think you will give me up that paper?' Erin - 'Never! That document in your hand was obtained by fraud and misrepresentation, and has therefore no moral force'. Balfour - 'Ho! Ho! The you mean to split with Rome?' Erin - 'Never! I have always been a faithful child of the Church, and will ever remain so, but I mean to manage my own domestic affairs, as everyone else does'. With verse. Collection of cartoons printed in book form - THE WEEKLY FREEMAN CARTOONS, FORMING THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF IRELAND FOR THE GREATER PORTION OF 1888. Taken from the Freeman's Journal, Dublin, 1888.;