Irish Intelligence

John Gordon Thomson (1841-1911)

Dalziel Brothers, engravers

Fun

(3 May 1862)

Courtesy of the HathiTrust Digital Library and Princeton University.

English Tourist: — “Aw—my good fellow—can you inform me if that monument was built by subscription?”

Ignorant Native: — “Built by subscription? Oh! no, bedad. ’Twas built by ould Larkey Donelly, the stonecutter!”

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A standard ethnic joke in which the local is so ignorant he doesn’t know the meaning of “subscription.” Similar cartoons have English and Scottish countrymen and woman as their target. Note, though, the unattractive appearance of the English tourist.

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