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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.
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political cartoon / A New Home in the Ould Country, 1883
Political cartoon, from the Weekly Freeman, 1 December 1883. Titled 'A New Home in the Ould Country'. Sign reads 'Pat Flynn located on this farm of 25 acres by the Irish Migration Company'. One of a set of fourteen Irish political cartoons, December 1881, February, June, August and October 1882...
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...
political cartoon / A Ghastly Jubilee, 1887
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 2 July 1887. Titled ' A Ghastly Jubilee'. Colour print in red, blue and black depicting a figure of Erin seated chained in a jail cell while above her is an image of houses in flames, and despairing famlies leaving for America. 'Turnkey' Balfour...
political cartoon / Relieving the Rates, 1883
Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 7 July 1883. Titled 'Relieving the Rates'. Depicting Columbia (America) as a female figure, and John Bull.
political cartoon / Forewarned, 1883
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 10 November 1883. Titled 'Forewarned'. Depicting a female representing the Freeman's Journal, warning a man of of the Emigration Commission.