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Nationalist cartoon, 1887.

The golden jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign was celebrated in Britain as a time of ‘prosperity and gentle rule’. Here the chained figure of Erin is shown in her prison cell before a bust of the monarch reminding us of a very different legacy of land agitation, coercion acts, poverty and evictions.

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  1. Militarism and Separatism