Shutting Them Up

Shutting Them Up

John Gordon Thomson (1841-1911)

Dalziel Brothers, engravers

Fun Almanac, p. 13

Signed with initials middle right.

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Mr. Bull: — “Let you attend to your parliamentary duties? No, thank you; I'll just hand you over as a Christmas present to justice.”

A jingoistic cartoon embodying the disastrous effects of the Coercion Acts, which gave the Viceroy of Ireland the power to imprison Irish Nationalists without charge. The Viceroy then threw into prison Irish Members of Parliament, creating bitterness and suspicion that never really abated even after they were released.

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