political cartoon / A General Invitation, 1888

Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 16 June 1888. Titled 'A General Invitation'. Depicting a female Erin - 'Shure you're always going to Scotland and the Continent - Why not give me a chance this year. I have as beautiful hills anmd lakes as any of them, and I'll take the best care of you'. Mr John Morley, in an interview with a Freeman representative said 'That if Mr Cook could bring over the British tourist, half the misunderstanding that exist in the Saxon mind would speedily disappear'. 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.;