Come Here To Me!

Mounted police were charging quick witted urchins who scattered and lured the attackers into narrow by-lanes. There the boys used stones and pieces of brick with accuracy and rapidity. My sympathies were with the newsboys.

-Ernie O’Malley remembers a newsboy strike in Dublin in his memoir On Another Man’s Wound.

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I like working with my brother, as he’s a more than capable illustrator and I find a good illustration brings a history piece to life. We have a piece together in an upcoming issue of Rabble around Dublin newsboys in the first half of the twentieth century. It’s a look at one of the most overlooked working class groups in the history of the city, and is at times both a tragic and humorous story. The final illustration is very, very different from this one below, but I still wanted to share it.

Illustration: Luke Fallon.

If it looks familiar, that’s entirely deliberate, as it’s in the same style as this illustration of the famous Dublin Garda Lugs Branigan he completed for a biography of that Dublin character in another issue of Rabble.