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United Irishmen upon Duty   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
United Irishmen upon Duty
Description
English: A night scene with a waning moon. United Irishmen burn and plunder. On the left is the corner of a farm house with flames pouring from a casement window. A ruffian wearing a military coat, tricolour cockade and green branch in his hat, seizes the burly farmer by the neck-cloth and raises a sword to strike; the dripping blade is inscribed 'Liberty', and a mastiff lies dead beside him. Immediately behind, in a doorway, another ruffian seizes a woman round the waist; an infant lies on the ground. A man holding a dagger is disappearing into the house, another comes out with a bundle on his head. Behind are the flames of the burning house. Over the thatched lintel is a dove-cote from which birds are escaping. Three other men hurry off laden with plunder towards a road which leads to a camp flying a tricolour flag inscribed 'Equality'. The nearest (right) holds a sow on his back by the hind legs; her little pigs run after her; a goose hangs from his belt. A bare-legged man with a dagger in his belt pushes a wheelbarrow laden with trunks. In the background other plunderers proceed along the road; a man prods a cow with his spear. The road is crowded with sheep. In the distance is a burning town. A companion print to BMSat 9229. 12 June 1798
Hand-coloured etching
Date 1798
date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 195 millimetres
Width: 265 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1868,0808.6751
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Owing to the arrest of the leaders in Dublin (cf. BMSat 9227) and the lack of timely aid from France, the Rebellion had the character, not of a civil war, but of a fanatical religious and agrarian peasant revolt. In some districts every house belonging to a Protestant was burnt to the ground. The Rebellion broke out on 23 May, on 30 May the rebels entered Wexford, which was reoccupied by the troops on 21 June. See 'Ann. Reg.', 1798, pp. 105 ff.; Guillon, 'La France et l'Irlande pendant la Révolution', 1888, pp. 352 ff.; Lecky, 'Hist. of England', 1890, viii. 55 ff. See also BMSats 9227, 9229, 9231, 9234, 9235, 9236, 9242, 9244, 9245, 9249, 9254, 9276, 9339, 9369, 9370.

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 203. Wright and Evans, No. 205. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
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