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File:TheUsualIrishWayofDoingThings.jpg

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English: Anti-Irish political cartoon titled "The Usual Irish Way of Doing Things" by Thomas Nast (1840–1902), published in Harper's Weekly on 2 September 1871.

Captions on walls: "Everything obnoxious to us shall be abolished, Our liberty has been taken away (killing Orangemen), We must rule."

Caption on barrel: "Uncle Sam's Gun Powder."
Date 2 September 1871
Source http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/ic/image_details.php?id=5046
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