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Search our Historical Collections Online, a sample of 10,000 artefacts from the National Museum of Ireland’s Historical, Military and Easter Week Collections, published as part of the Decade of Commemorations.
political cartoon / Balfour's Pic-Nic, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 18 August 1888. Titled 'Balfour's Pic-Nic'. Depicting Balfour serving a picnic food, labelled 'slander' and 'lies' to four ladies. Balfour, finding no sensible people will listen to him, goes to a 'Primrose Pic-nic' and entertains the Dames. With...
political cartoon / The Hollow Square, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 25 August 1888. Titled 'The Hollow Square'. Depicting Balfour and Londonderry giving a speech to the Royal Irish Constabulary. Regarding evictions; an insert shows an engagement with the Widow Maloney, as she throws a bucket of tar and coloured...
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...
political cartoon / A Fellow Feeling, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 8 September 1888. Titled 'A Fellow Feeling'. Depicting John Bull and Lord Clanricarde (Clan-rack-hard) at a demolished house. Referring to rack-renting allowed under English law. Royal Irish Constabulary with a battering ram visible in the...
political cartoon / Brummagem to the Core, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 15 September 1888. Titled 'Brummagem to the Core'. Depicting John Bull, to his Envoy Extraordinary, who is holding papers titled 'Ireland Liberal Unionists' and 'America Fisheries Commission' - 'Look here, you confounded muddler, I shall have to get...
political cartoon / Tom Moroney, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 2 September 1888. Portrait of Tom Moroney, committed to jail by Judge Boyd, 28 January 1887. Moroney was jailed for his part in the Plan of Campaign, and refusing to inform on his colleagues. Collection of cartoons printed in book form - THE WEEKLY...
political cartoon / Sneaking Off, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 29 September 1888. Titled 'Sneaking Off'. Depicting the female figure of Justice ordering The Times into the courtroom. Justice 'No, you are not going to et off that way. You will have to prove your words and take the consequences'. The Times 'I...
political cartoon / Balfour's Plan of Campaign, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 29 September 1888. Titled 'Balfour's Plan of Campaign'. Depicting Balfour and a landlord on a rocking horse, reviewing a line comprised of battering rams and notices to quit, beyond which are flags bearing the words 'starvation' and 'death', with a...
political cartoon / Caught!, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 13 October 1888. Titled 'Caught!', Judges 'It is a Devil fish'. Depicting three judges, in a fishing boat named 'Parnell Commission', catching The Times fish. The fish labelled 'forged letter' and 'forgery'. Referring to The Times series...
political cartoon / Evicting to Death, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 20 October 1888. Titled 'Evicting to Death'. On Thursday October 11th a poor old man, 80 years of age, named James Dunne, was flung out on the side of the road by Balfour's gang of Emergency Men, although he informed them prophetically that he had...
political cartoon / The Most Noble, 1887
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 17 December 1887. Titled 'The Most Noble'. Depicting the Marquis of Clanricarde (titled the Marquis of Clanrackrent) with his Counsel in the courtroom - 'Gentlemen of the Jury, I put it to you, is my client as black as he is painted? Jury -...
political cartoon / The Moutain in Labour, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 27 October 1888. Titled 'The Moutain in Labour'. Depicting three judges at a mountain, 'Charges and Allegations' above. 'After years of bellowing The Times has at last produced its - mouse'. Regarding The Times series 'Parnellism and Crime'. With...
political cartoon / Erin's Christmas Pudding, 1887
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 24 December 1887. Titled 'Erin's Christmas Pudding'. Depicting male bringing in supplies - Help from Scotland, Help from England, Sympathy and Help from Australia, Sympathy and Help from America, while the female Erin stirs the pudding, titled...
political cartoon / The Year Out and The Year In, 1887
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 31 December 1887. Titled 'The Year Out and The Year In'. Depicting a male gladiator figure, representing 1888, being handed a club titled 'Irish Nationality' by 1887, to beat the tiger titled 'Balfour'. With verse. Collection of cartoons...
political cartoon / Foot-prints in the Sands of Time, 1888
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 7 January 1887. Titled 'Foot-prints in the Sands of Time'. Depicting 'Balfour Crusoe', alarmed at seeing footprints marked 'Morley' and 'Ripon'. Balfour Crusoe, who has just been singing "I'm Monarch of all I Survey", is suddenly alarmed at...
political cartoon / A Fowl Case, 1888
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 14 January 1887. Titled 'A Fowl Case'. Depicting Balfour and Mr Shaw Lefevre. 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....
political cartoon / Forster and the Land League, 1880
Political cartoon, 30 October 1880, publication not identified. Titled 'Moonshine'. Depicting William Forster, Chief Secretary of Ireland in Gladstone's government, attempting to reign a donkey named 'Land League', with John Bull saying 'If you are afraid of the nettles Forster, you had better...
political cartoon / Giving the Evictors a Free Hand, 1890
Political cartoon, from the newspaper United Ireland, 24 May 1890. Titled 'Giving the Evictors a Free Hand'. Clanricarde to Balfour: 'What the deuce do you mean by appearing in such ridiculous costume? Is it to disturb me in 'the exercise of my legal rights'?' By J. D. Reigh. HH:1944.224.1-10....
political cartoon / The Sphinx is Silent, 1892
Political cartoon, from the newspaper United Ireland, 6 August 1892. Titled 'The Sphinx is Silent'. Depicting William Gladstone as a Spinx figure. HH:1944.224.1-10. Ten printed cartoons from the paper United Ireland 1890-1892. 10) The Sphinx is Silent. 6th August 1892.