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diary / Landlord accounts, Co.Galway, 1790
Small pocket book. Covered with brown leather. Gilt edged pages. The Lady's and Gentleman's Memorandum Book with a Complete Calander for the Year 1789, forming a daily account of their engagements and expenses throughout the year. Printed in Dublin for W. Wilson, No. 6 Dame Street. With notes from...
rent roll / Mayo, 1800
Rent roll, with list of tenants, properties, rents and length of tenure. From the estate of Denis Brown, Co. Mayo. Three pages (folded).
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...
match box / Land League / Parnell, 1880
Land League matchbox, cover only. Flattened out plywood with paper covering showing on one side a portrait of Parnell with above 'The Land League' and below, 'Match' and on the other an encounter between a tenant and a landlord. 'Landlord - I want my rent. Tenant - And I want to pay my rent at...
political cartoon / The Doom of the Landlord, 1886
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 4 September 1886. Titled 'The Doom of the Landlord'. Referencing the Landlord Relief Scheme, Gladstone's Land Act and Purchase Bill. Depicted are Salisbury and Chamberlain speaking to the British Taxpayer. By J.D. Reigh.
political cartoon / Equal Before the Law (on paper), 1883
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 7 April 1883. Titled 'Equal Before the Law (on paper)'. Depicts a Judge assuring a landlord he will face no consequences for his dealings with a tenant.
political cartoon / Valuing Him, 1882
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 18 November 1882. Titled 'Valuing Him'. Depicting Court Valuer valuing the turnip crop per acre of Maguire's land.
political cartoon / Freedom of Contract in Ireland, 1882
Political Cartoon, from the Weekly Freeman, 25 February 1882. Titled 'Freedom of Contract in Ireland'. Depicting landlords forcing a tenant to sign a lease, with increase in rent, and threatened with eviction. One of a set of fourteen Irish political cartoons, December 1881, February, June,...
match box / Land League / Parnell, 1880
Land League Matchbox. In two pieces. Plywood with paper. Side labelled, Manufactured by The Irish Match Co. Dublin. Top has a portrait of Parnell with, the Land League/Match, across on top and at bottom. Bottom has a cartoon of an encounter between a rackrenting landlord and a determined tenant,...
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 / Lord Salisbury's Remedy for Ireland, 1886
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 21 August 1886. Titled 'Lord Salisbury's Remedy for Ireland'. Depicting a bailiff breaking down the house of an evicted family, the Royal Irish Constabulary visible in the background. By J.D. Reigh.
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 / Plan of Campaign - Until the Landlord Give In, 1888
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 4 February 1888. Titled 'Plan of Campaign - Until the Landlord Gives In'. Colour print in red, yellow, black and blue on newsprint which depicts 'Mrs. Campaign', 'Master Rackrenter' and 'Patsey with Fruits of His Labour - Potatoes and Home Rule...
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 / 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 Road to Ruin, 1888
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 21 January 1888. Titled 'The Road to Ruin'. Depicting the 1881 Land Act as a toban, sliding down the slope of rent reduction towards bankruptcy. With verse. Collection of cartoons printed in book form - THE WEEKLY FREEMAN CARTOONS, FORMING...
political cartoon / Shylock and the 'Plan', 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 12 May 1888. Titled 'Shylock and the 'Plan''. Shylock (a Lord) demanding his due from Portia (Plan of Campaign). With verse. Collection of cartoons printed in book form - THE WEEKLY FREEMAN CARTOONS, FORMING THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF IRELAND FOR THE...
political cartoon / Irish Tenants' Defence association - Wexford Convention, 1889
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland', 16 November 1889. Titled 'Irish Tenants' Defence association - Wexford Convention, November 11 1889'. Refencing the 1798 Rebellion in Wexford, Edmond Ryan and his Shilmaliers at Arklow, Father Murphy at Vinegar Hill, and Wexford in 1889 -...
political cartoon / Taking the Landlords at Their Word, 1886
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 3 April 1886. Titled 'Taking the Landlords at Their Word'. Depicting a belligerent Landlord Deputation confronting William Gladstone over the Land Purchase Scheme and Home Rule. By J.D. Reigh.