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O'Connell driving the vipers out of Ireland.

Cartoon by William Tell, published in Dublin in 1844. It shows O'Connell holding a brush labelled "Repeal" and sweeping out toads and vipers named "Times", "A Bad Judge", "T.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.L.K.L.M...", "Scorpion Stanley", "Either side Graham", "Mother Bank", while the sun "Freedom" rises in the background. O'Connell sings "Off you toads & vipers. Off you slimy Peel, And tell the haughty Saxons O'Connell wins Repeal".

Topic

  1. Emancipation, Famine & Religion: Ireland under the Union, 1815–1870.

Personality

  1. Daniel O’Connell

Gallery

  1. Cartoons and caricatures of O'Connell