“The Irish Grievance Grinder and His Monkey

The Irish Grievance Grinder and His Monkey

John Gordon Thomson (1841-1911)

Dalziel Brothers, engravers

Fun

(6 October 1880: 137

Courtesy of the HathiTrust Digital Library and Princeton University.

The monkey, whose hat band bears the word “assassin,” is controlled by the organ grander, probably Charles Stewart Parnell. the Irish Nationalist Leader and Member of Parliament.

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