political cartoon / Brazen Balfour, 1889

Political cartoon, from the Weekly Freeman, titled 'Brazen Balfour', 24 August 1889. 'Whilst the venerated Clergy of Clare are facing, day and night, every sort of weather in their efforts to comfort the sick and poor - This truculent slanderer is denouncing them from his comfortable place in the House of Commons as disgracing their Cloth - Can insolence and lying go further?'. HH:1940.44.1-41. Collection of pictures etc. taken of Irish History 1798 - 1905. HH:1940.44.11 - Picture from the Weekly Freeman 24/8/1889.;