Disloyalty, Dishonesty, Conspiracy, Outrage and then the Home Rule Bill!
| Summary: | Propagandist handbill dissuading British and Irish loyalists from voting for the passing of the second Home Rule Bill in 1893. At top of handbill: 'This leaflet is NOT copyright'. Final statements at end of handbill read: 'Verify these statements for yourself and help to defeat the Home Rule Conspiracy. It threatens to destroy both Great Britain and Ireland'. Excerpts from main body of text include: 'What is thought of it in Ireland? The capitalists are against it; the loyal men and women are against it; The Protestants of Ireland are against it; Don't imagine these are all in Ulster - Leinster has over 174,000 Protestants, Munster and Connaught over 160,000 (See Dublin directory for 1893, page 637); The educated and loyal Roman Catholic laity of Ireland are against Home Rule. Who are in favour of Home Rule? The dynamiters of America; The Fenians and Invincibles of Ireland; the idlers, the grumblers and the disaffected; the place-hunters, who see no other prospect of earning money; the ignorant and mistaught peasantry of the South and West of Ireland have voted for Home Rule Candidates. Why? Beacause they have been bribed with the promise of being allowed to drive out the present owners of property, and seize upon their homes. Residenes of loyal inhabitants have been already raffled for amongst the peasantry, at sixpence a ticket. If Home Rule is passed, Great Britain will be over-run with Irishmen, Irishwomen and Irish children, of the working classes, looking for employment. There will be no work for them in Ireland. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[S.l. :
s.n.,
n.d., circa 1893?]
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| Notes: | This item is held in the Department of Ephemera. Physical description: 1 handbill [2 p.] ; 19 cm x 13 cm. more |
As a digital copy of this item is available, the original will not be issued.
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EPH B200 |
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Ephemera |
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