OTD: 21 JUNE 1887: Victoria’s 50th Jubilee

A cartoon was circulated 1887 by John Fergus O’Hea, a highly regard political cartoonist, to mark the occasion of Queen Victoria’s jubilee celebrating the 50th anniversary of her reign. After eighty seven years since the Act of Union, Ireland was said to be “distracted, disloyal and impoverished.” It was published in the Weekly Freeman, July […]

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