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political cartoon / Unionists Look Out!!!, 1888
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 4 February 1888. Titled 'Unionists Look Out!!!'. Depicting Parnell greeting a cheering crowd with 'Home Rule' , 'Liberty of Speech' and 'No Coercion' banners. Balfour and Hartington view the scene from a window - 'When this is reported in...
political cartoon / Rude Borey-Ass and the Traveller, 1888
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 10 March 1888. Titled 'Rude Borey-Ass and the Traveller'. Depicting the female Erin with a green cloak named 'Irish National League' wrapped tightly around her, with Balfour blowing a cold wind named 'Coercion'. With a quote from Aesop's...
political cartoon / The Last Act, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 23 June 1888. Titled 'The Last Act'. Depicting Balfour showing the Ayrburgh Election result to Lord Salisbury, dressed as Macbeth, holding a knife named 'coercion'. With verse. Collection of cartoons printed in book form - THE WEEKLY FREEMAN...
political cartoon / Christmas Fare, 1889
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 28 December 1889. Titled 'Christmas Fare'. Colour print in green, red, blue, yellow and black showing John Bull and Lord Salisbury in the foreground with a 'coercion' dish, while in the background Wales, Scotland and Ireland dine together, served...
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 / Shooting the Irish Rapids, 1886
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 31 July 1886. Titled 'Shooting the Irish Rapids'. Colour print in green, red and black depicting two figures in a boat being dragged into the 'Coercion Rapids' at the bottom of which lies a broken boat called 'Landlordism'. A figure, 'Pat',...
political cartoon / Landlordism on the Horns of a Dilemma, 1886
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 23 October 1886. Titled 'Landlordism on the Horns of a Dilemma'. Depicting a man on the horns of a bull, the horns marked 'Coercion & No Rent.. Surrender at Discretion'. By J.D. Reigh.
political cartoon / The Modern Quintus Curtius, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 21 April 1888. Titled 'The Modern Quintus Curtius'. Depicting Balfour on a donkey named 'Coercion', falling into a pit. The Modern Quintus Curtius, as described by that brilliant Tory Ashmead Bartlett, Quintus Curtius' Balfour plunges into the pit,...
political cartoon / The Coercion Quagmire, 1887
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 3 September 1887. Titled 'The Coercion Quagmire'. Colour print in red, blue and black on newsprint depicting Chamberlain asking Harrington, the King of England and a third man sink into the bog - 'The Coercion Quagmire'. Harrington replies 'Too...
political cartoon / Scotland's Message to Ireland, 1889.
Political cartoon, from the Weekly Freeman, titled 'Scotland's Message to Ireland', 26 January 1889. Erin's Reply - 'Bravo Scotland! Bravo Govan!'. Referencing the Govan by-election of 18 January 1889, when the Liberal John Wilson won the seat. The other candidate was the Liberal Unionist Sir John...
illustration / Free Trade Moryah, 1888
Political Cartoon, supplement to 'United Ireland', 1 December 1888. Titled 'Free Trade Moryah'. Evictor 'Sign, or I'll run you out'. Coercionist 'Sign, or I'll run you in'. Rack-Rented Tenant 'I shall never be able to pay the instalments'. Evictor 'I don't care a d-n. Let you and John Bull fight...
political cartoon / The Siamese Twins, 1887
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 3 December 1887. Titled 'The Siamese Twins'. Or the Real Union of Liberal Unionists. This miserable exhibitions took place on tuesday last in the Leinster Hall, Dublin, for the edification of a mob of dilapidated Tory landlords, who howled...
political cartoon / Design for an Irish Jubilee Memorial, 1887
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 29 January 1887. Titled 'Design for an Irish Jubilee Memorial'. Colour print in green, red, brown and black showing a 'Jubilee memorial'. A three-headed beast, the central head being a skull with the collar 'famine', those on either side being a...
political cartoon / The Rivals, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 2 June 1888. Titled 'The Rivals'. Depicting Balfour, holding a bouquet of flowers named 'coercion', rejected by the female Southampton, who is in the arms of the male 'National League'. With verse. Collection of cartoons printed in book form - THE...
political cartoon / Welcome and Defiance, 1890
Political cartoon, from the newspaper United Ireland, 31 May 1890. Titled 'Welcome and Defiance'. She's a smile for those that love her, and a frown for those that hate her. A female figure representing Tipperary in centre, standing on a proclamation. By J.D. Reigh. HH:1944.224.1-10. Ten printed...
political cartoon / Looking at his Work, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 21 July 1888. Titled 'Looking at his Work'. Depicts Balfour looking into the coffin of John Mandeville, died July 1st of Savage Coercion. Suggested by a picture by Paul de la Roche of Cromwell gazing at the dead king. Regarding the death of John...
political cartoon / St. Patrick's Day, 1882
Political Cartoon, supplement to the Weekly Freeman, 18 March 1882. Titled 'St. Patrick's Day, 1882' - On his anniversary St. Patrick re-visits his well-beloved island, and finds that he has to do his work all over again.