cartoon / William Murder Murphy's Tramcars

Postcard cartoon. William Murder Murphy's Tramcars. Depicting the Dublin Metropolitan Police and Scottish Borderers on the Dublin to Howth tramcar. With 'Don't Forget August 1913'. Along top; In memoriam of Patrick Quinn (Irish Transport Union), Mrs Duffy, wife of Owen Duffy (Irish Transport Union), and James Brennan, murdered July 26th 1914, James Nolan, John Byrne, murdered August 1913, and Alice Brady, murdered December 18th 1913. Underneath; Birrell's Bloody Bullies. Lest ye forget! Murphy ordered citizen passangers out of his cars to facilitate Birrell's hired assassins and the police in theri ignoble attempt to disarm Irishmen. These sweepings of Scotch slums shot down unarmed men, women and children. Artwork by Ernest Kavanagh, 1914 (E.K. 1914 in corner). Referencing the 1913 Lockout and the tramcar used to bring the military to intercept the Howth gun run landing, 1914.;