“Caught in the Act

Caught in the Act

John Gordon Thomson (1841-1911)

Dalziel Brothers, engravers

Fun

(3 November 1880): 177

Last part of caption: “Of letting off Irish fireworks, and endangering the peace and safety of Her Majesty’s subjects.”

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Gladstone as policeman catching Parnell and other Irish Nationalists in the act.

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