A fellow feeling Farmer Bull, to Old Clan-rack-hard.-"Look ye here, this sort of thing must stop. How do you expect these poor Irish people to pay you extortionate rents, when I, with all my advantages and privileges, cannot pay mine - don't you see the seasons and competitions are against us?". Clan-rack-hard.-"That is nothing to me, if they don't pay - down come thier roofs. It is English Law, your Law and I will use it to the last." / Farmer Bull.-"Then it must not be for long. Such devilry, whether legal or not, must cease.".

A fellow feeling

Farmer Bull, to Old Clan-rack-hard.-"Look ye here, this sort of thing must stop. How do you expect these poor Irish people to pay you extortionate rents, when I, with all my advantages and privileges, cannot pay mine - don't you see the seasons and competitions are against us?". Clan-rack-hard.-"That is nothing to me, if they don't pay - down come thier roofs. It is English Law, your Law and I will use it to the last." / Farmer Bull.-"Then it must not be for long. Such devilry, whether legal or not, must cease.".
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Bibliographic Details
Format: Prints & Drawings
Language:English
Published / Created: [Dublin : P.J. Gormley], 8th September, 1888.
Subjects:
Symbols > Ireland > 1880-1890.
John Bull (Symbolic character)
Landlord and tenant > Ireland
Landlord and tenant > Ireland > 19th century
Ireland > History > 19th century
Ireland > Politics and government > 19th century
Ireland > Politics and government > 19th century > Caricatures and cartoons.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 19th century
Great Britain > Politics and government > 19th century > Caricatures and cartoons
Great Britain > Relations > Ireland
Chromolithographs > Irish > 1880-1890.
Editorial cartoons > Irish > 1880-1890
Political cartoons > Irish > 1880-1890.
Notes:Supplement given away with the Weekly Freeman 8th September, 1888. Price Three Half-Pence.

Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 43.0 x 29.1cm..

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