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Shemus.
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Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Forbes, Ernest, 1879-1962
Summary:Depicts members of the Dáil Éireann during its first ever all-night sitting. Many members appear asleep while George Gavan Duffy is visible addressing the chamber. The debate concerned a Public Safety Bill to permit inter alia the continued detention of anti-Treaty prisoners without trial.
In collection: Shemus Cartoon Collection
Format: Prints & Drawings
Language:English
Published / Created: 14th July 1923.
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Notes:Shemus was a pseudonym used by Ernest Forbes.

Title and caption are handwritten on front.

Caption reads: The Dail rose at --- on Friday after an all-night sitting.

Terror and discord: the Shemus cartoons in the Freeman's Journal, 1920-1924 by Felix M. Larkin. Dublin: A&A Farmar, 2009.

Published in: The Freeman's Journal, 14th July 1923.

Published in: Weekly Freeman, 21st July 1923.

Physical description: 1 drawing : ink and crayon ; image 24 x 28 cm., on sheet 29 x 31 cm.

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Contained in:Forms part of: The Shemus Cartoon Collection.