political cartoon / The League and the Leprechaun, 1888

Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 14 April 1888. Titled 'The League and the Leprechaun'. Depicting an Irish man, representing the Land League, holding a small sized Balfour. The League, who has just caught a Leprechaun - 'An' so you imp of falsehood, you have been tellin' them over in England that I'm dead and buried, an' a thing of the past, Begor, I'm alive enough, anyhow, to make you swallow your own lies until they choke you'. 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.;