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THE LIBRARY OF Congress has digitised an enormous number of artefacts which are a resource for any amateur historian.
Among its huge print and photography collection is a series of British cartoons.
Ireland is referred to in more than 100 of the prints and, often, not in a pleasing or favourable manner. Many are downright insulting.
However, we couldn’t help but giggle at this one, depicting one Irish ‘peg’.
Printed on 29 May 1773, the cartoon depicts a macaroni (a handsomely dressed fellow) walking past a burly and irate old Irish vegetable seller.
She is angry because he upset her mug of beer on the pavement. On this, she seized him by the monstrous tail attached to his toupée, and threatens to cut it off.
“Make good the damage you dog, or I’ll cut away your parnsip,” she says.
PARSNIP.
Gas altogether Peg.
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It must be one of Linda Martin’s ancestors!!
It depicts Irish women as overweight , violent and drinking during working hours … Or am I just over reacting
And you dispute this depiction?
Another reason to murder them Glen, wha? Spanner..
There is nothing funny about these cartoons. Google Irish Frankenstein and Irish Dynamite Skunk and you’ll see other highly prejudiced cartoons depicting Irish people.
I hope nobody gets offended by these 300 year old cartoons.
These cartoons were printed to offend time is irrelevant
Let yourself be offended so.
And what does it say about the English?
I thought cut away his parsnip meant something else until I read the article.
Peg is gas craic, great to have a pint with until she turns on ya
Hard to tell which of them is the woman..
At least we can laugh at ourselves and appreciate the humour.
@ Tony. I agree, you have a maturity lacking so often in this type of discussion. Why can’t Jews, Blacks Muslims, Gays etc just see the humor in so-called ‘offensive’ jokes, they would be a lot happier. We as a country need to embrace self-loathing.
Nothing has changed so.
Hilarious my arse. Downright bloody racist would be a better description. There’s a book called Angels and Apes which deals with the standard British illustration of the Irish in the 19th century. The British are depicted as slender well groomed with fine features and the Irish as filthy and unkempt, with ape like features usually brandishing a blunderbuss behind his masters back.
If everybody got upset over cartoons that are 100s of years old the world would be in a continuous state of war. It is time some people grew up.
Not a whole lot has changed it would seem! At least they weren’t tussling over a mickey ring :-)
All this picture says to me is that the English were (and still are) a tiresome race of narcissists and hypocrites.
Peter,
Know lots of English people do you? You must know hundreds to be able to classify the entire race.
Seems spot on
Have fear.
The british depicted their own lower class (if you call the real working class of the time that ) in the same manner as most countries did at the time ,ever see any of the cartoons during during the French Revolution and the way the peasants were depicted
Maybe a caricature of a Drunken grope with a fat ankled country girl in the alley outside Coppers would bring it up to date.
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