A Mischievious Crew, by William Henry Boucher (1837-1906). Judy, or the London Serio-Comic Journal (6 August 1877): 168-69. Click on image to enlarge it.
This cartoon represents one of the typically offensive portrayals of the people of Ireland and Irish representatives to Parliament as subhuman, as monkeys and other apes. In their human for Boucher presents them as relying on the shillelagh, the Irish club, as the typical (and perhaps only) Irish means of making decisions.
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Links to related material
- Ireland (homepage)
- A Model Debate — The Would-Be Reformers of the British Parliament (Boucher)
- Irish Debaters (Boucher)
- The Irish Complaint (Curing or Killing) (Boucher)
Bibliography
Curtis, Perry. Anglo-Saxons and Celts: A Study of Anti-Irish Prejudice in Victorian England.. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1968.
Curtis, Perry. Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971 (rev. ed. 1997)
Martin, Amy E. Alter-Nations: Nationalisms, Terror, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012. [Review]
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