United Irishmen in training 1798

James Gilray’s 1798 Irishman stands front and center of the cartoon. Wearing a red cap, he is about to plunge his weapon into an effigy of a British soldier. Though not exactly apelike, this early rendering of a cartooned Irishman displays boorish, orgre-like facial features.

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