“The Opprissed Race

The Opprissed Race

Edward G. Dalziel

Fun (21 April 1880): 155

Courtesy of the HathiTrust Digital Library and Princeton University.

Like many cartoons in English periodicals, this one both makes fun of Irish drunkedness and consequent tendency to violence, but this one not only doesn’t connect violence to Fenianism but presents the Irishman and the Englishman calmly discussing their points of view.

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