Carousal and Plunder at the Palace of the Bishop of Ferns, during the Irish Rebellion of 1798
Illustration by George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878) from History of the Irish rebellion published 1887. From wiki: Euseby Cleaver (8 September 1745 – 10 December 1819) was the Church of Ireland Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin (1789–1809) in Ireland and subsequently Archbishop of Dublin (1809-1819). During the 1798 insurrection in Ireland his palace in Ferns was ransacked and Cleaver was obliged to take refuge in Beaumaris, Anglesey which was in his brother, William Cleaver's diocese of Bangor, Gwynedd, where he lived at what is now the Bishopsgate Hotel. The rebellion was brutally repressed by The British, who carried out many killings of civilians and collective punishment of entire communities, actions which would probably today be viewed as war crimes. The British however saw themselves as the victims of the traitorous Irish, and newspapers of the day invariably portrayed the Irish as murderous savages, while the British army and their Protestant allies were portrayed as underdogs and victims. George Cruikshank was fiercely patriotic, and his illustrations invariably portrayed the rebels as mobs of subhuman brutes, whilst the British were portrayed as upstanding defenders of law and order. His illustrations should therefore probably -despite their artistic merit- be viewed as British propaganda.
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