The partition viceroy
Shemus.
[graphic] /
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| Summary: | Caption reads: Lloyd George: "Now, you're quite clear about everything?" Lord Edmund Talbot [Edmund Bernard FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent]: "Absolutely. Just the good old motto, to halve and to hold. Unpublished caption is handwritten above the image and reads: Lloyd G.: "I hope you'll make plenty of friends!" Lord Talbot: "Don't worry about that. I know heaps of people in Belfast!". Illustration depicts the last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Edmund Bernard FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent [known as Lord Edmund Talbot, between 1876 and 1921] on a train called the "Castle extra special", before it pulls out of the station. On the platform saying goodbye to him are David Lloyd George, Edward Carson and Lord Birkenhead [also known as "Galloper Smith"]. Carson hands Lord Talbot a telegram, saying "Here's a wire from Bonar! [Andrew Bonar Law]". Above Lord Birkenhead is written: Galloper: "Remember me to all our mutual friends!". |
| In collection: | Shemus Cartoon Collection |
| Format: | Prints & Drawings |
| Language: | English |
| Published / Created: |
7th April 1921.
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| Notes: | Shemus was a pseudonym used by Ernest Forbes. Title, date and caption in pencil on verso. Published in: The Freeman's Journal, 7th April, 1921. Published in: Weekly Freeman, 16th April, 1921. Physical description: 1 drawing : ink and crayon, col ; image 31 x 28 cm., on sheet 33 x 29 cm. more |
| Contained in: | Forms part of: The Shemus Cartoon Collection. |
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PD 4309 TX 74 |
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