political cartoon / What Erin Expects, 1888

Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 1 September 1888. Titled 'What Erin Expects'. Depicting a female Erin urging donations from the Irish merchants, artisans and farmers, indicating towards a Freeman's Journal Fund box, inscribed 'The National Indemnity to Mr Parnell and his Colleagues in their Contest with Forgers and Liars'. In reference to Parnell's case against The Times' series 'Parnellism and Crime', and the Parnell Commission. 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.;