Come Here To Me!

This fantastic punch cartoon comes from a London publication and dates from September 10 1913. It relates to the situation in Dublin at the time of the Lockout. James Curry’s recent study of the cartoonist Ernest Kavanagh (‘Artist of the Revolution’) is a great addition to the work on the period, looking at the cartoons of a left-wing artist who worked with the trade union movement of the day, depicting scenes like John Redmond as ‘The New Liberator’ standing upon the body of an Irish suffragete. Cartoons like this one however, from the London press, give fantastic insight into the ‘establishment’ take on the Lockout in Dublin. I scanned this image as this particular cartoon was absent from the internet as far as I could see.

The police man is shown shackled and unable to respond to the riot around him. In the background we see a mob hellbent on destruction.

‘The Rioters Ideal’