File:Young Ireland in Business for Himself - Punch (22 August 1846).jpg

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Summary

Following the secession of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Ireland" class="extiw" title="en:Young Ireland">Young Ireland</a> movement from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeal_Association" class="extiw" title="en:Repeal Association">Repeal Association</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_O%27Connell" class="extiw" title="en:Daniel O'Connell">Daniel O'Connell</a> in 1846, a "monkey faced" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_O%27Brien" class="extiw" title="en:William Smith O'Brien">William Smith O'Brien</a> is shown in a Repeal cap selling bullets, blunderbusses and pistols to an "equally simian looking" Paddy.

Signs in the shop read

"A large assortment of most ilicant Blunderbuss's, the trade supplied"
and
"Pretty little pistols for pretty little children"

According to Williams (2003): <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9FoLSc3pWJkC&pg=PA175">175</a>,

"The antiquated firearms and primitive agricultural weapons suggest the inadequacy of nationalist military resources and the foolishness of the idea that Ireland could overthrow England by arms."

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current12:59, 15 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 12:59, 15 January 2017600 × 793 (321 KB)127.0.0.1 (talk)<div class="description"> Following the secession of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Ireland" class="extiw" title="en:Young Ireland">Young Ireland</a> movement from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeal_Association" class="extiw" title="en:Repeal Association">Repeal Association</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_O%27Connell" class="extiw" title="en:Daniel O'Connell">Daniel O'Connell</a> in 1846, a "monkey faced" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_O%27Brien" class="extiw" title="en:William Smith O'Brien">William Smith O'Brien</a> is shown in a Repeal cap selling bullets, blunderbusses and pistols to an "equally simian looking" Paddy. <p> Signs in the shop read </p> <dl><dd> <i>"A large assortment of most ilicant Blunderbuss's, the trade supplied"</i><br> </dd></dl> and<br><dl><dd> <i>"Pretty little pistols for pretty little children"</i><p></p> </dd></dl> According to Williams (2003): <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9FoLSc3pWJkC&pg=PA175">175</a>, <dl><dd>"The antiquated firearms and primitive agricultural weapons suggest the inadequacy of nationalist military resources and the foolishness of the idea that Ireland could overthrow England by arms."</dd></dl> </div>
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