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Summary

Description
English: A caricature of "Old Ireland" (Daniel O'Connell, right) and "Young Ireland" (William Smith O'Brien, left) fighting like Kilkenny cats.[1]

Published in Punch 8 August 1846 (vol.11 No.265 p.57). Image by Richard Doyle, text by Horace Mayhew.[2]

Caption

The Kilkenny Cats; or, Old and Young Ireland "coming to the scratch."

Subtext

  "Oh, leave them alone,
  They'll fight to the bone,
And leave naught but their tails behind 'em."

References
  1. ↑ Punch vol.11 Introduction p.vii Notes 57
  2. ↑ Artists and "Suggestors": The Punch Cartoons 1843-1848 John Bush Jones and Priscilla Shaw Victorian Periodicals Newsletter Vol. 11, No. 1 (Johns Hopkins University Press: March 1978), p.10
Date
Source Punch 1846-08-08 v10 p57
Author

Image: Richard Doyle (1824–1883)

Text: Horace Mayhew (1816–1872)

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Captions

A caricature of "Old Ireland" (Daniel O'Connell, right) and "Young Ireland" (William Smith O'Brien, left) fighting like Kilkenny cats. Published in Punch, 8 August 1846

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