political cartoon / A Saint Patrick's Day Reflection, 1888

Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 17 March 1888. Titled 'A Saint Patrick's Day Reflection'. Depicting the female Erin standing before a Celtic Cross memorial to the emigrated Irishmen and women., as she points towards a ship leaving the shore. 'And still there are those who ask me 'why I want Home Rule?' The Registrar General has just issued a statisical return shewing that since May 1851, the awful number of 3,197,419 men and women of Irish birth (the young and strong ones), have fled their birthplace to find in most cases death in foreign lands, and each year is adding to the terrible national drain'. 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.;