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Artist
John Leech (1817–1864) wikidata:Q1374807 s:en:Author:John Leech
John Leech
Alternative names
John Leech
Description English caricaturist, illustrator and drawer
Date of birth/death 29 August 1817 Edit this at Wikidata 29 October 1864 / 14 October 1864 / 1864 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
Work location
London ; England Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q1374807
Title
Young Ireland in Business for Himself
Description
Following the secession of the Young Ireland movement from the Repeal Association of Daniel O'Connell in 1846, a "monkey faced" William Smith O'Brien is shown in a Repeal cap selling bullets, blunderbusses and pistols to an "equally simian looking" Paddy.

Signs in the shop read

"A large assortment of most ilicant Blunderbuss's, the trade supplied"
and
"Pretty little pistols for pretty little children"

According to Williams (2003): 175 ,
"The antiquated firearms and primitive agricultural weapons suggest the inadequacy of nationalist military resources and the foolishness of the idea that Ireland could overthrow England by arms."
Date 22 August 1846
date QS:P571,+1846-08-22T00:00:00Z/11
References Leslie Williams (2003), Daniel O'Connell, the British Press, and the Irish Famine: Killing Remarks , Ashgate Publishing Ltd, p. 175 . ISBN 0754605531 .
Source/Photographer

Image taken from Punch, or the London charivari

Scanned from the original by User:Fastfission .
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