Collection object
2004.0055
H. 26.5 W. 28.5
Print, cartoon, colour. Raising the Siege of Limerick, from United Ireland 13th Dec 1884. Image shows a bearded man with sabre and rifle, sat astride a kicking donkey attached to an upturned cannon with Mandamus on the barrel. They run away from a castle wall where two men man a cannon, one holding a banner, No extra police tax. Caption in lower margin, Raising the Siege of Limerick/ Like King William with his siege train, Earl Spencer with his Queen's Bench battery raises the siege of Limerick, and flies before "the men who held Limerick's Wall" against the extra police tax. Unclear signature at bottom right of cartoon