Caricature and the Irish : satirical prints from the Library of Trinity College Dublin, c.1780-1830 by Nicolas K. Robinson

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Caricature and the Irish : satirical prints from the Library of Trinity College Dublin, c.1780-1830 by Nicolas K. Robinson

€40.00
ISBN:
9781801511353
Author:
Nicolas K. Robinso
Publisher:
Four Courts Press Ltd
Publication Date:
2024
Format:
Hardback

From the author's extensive collection given to Trinity College in 1996, 105 caricatures, political and social, have been selected that poke fun at th…

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Caricature and the Irish : satirical prints from the Library of Trinity College Dublin, c.1780-1830 by Nicolas K. Robinson

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From the author's extensive collection given to Trinity College in 1996, 105 caricatures, political and social, have been selected that poke fun at the Irish during London's golden age of caricature. Some of them lampoon (or, occasionally, stand up for) celebrated or notorious individuals, among them Edmund Burke, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the duke of Wellington, John Philpot Curran, Thomas Moore, Viscount Castlereagh and Lady Caroline Lamb. Others target the sturdily built Irish labourers who migrated to London in search of work, and whose undercutting of local wages was much resented. Many prints, too, were published in Dublin, where plagiarism was rife, alleviated occasionally by witty adaptations.
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