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Description: A caricature of "Old Ireland" (Daniel O'Connell, right) and "Young Ireland" (William Smith O'Brien, left) fighting like Kilkenny cats.[1]Published in Punch 8 August 1846 (vol.11 No.265 p.57). Image by Richard Doyle, text by Horace Mayhew.[2] Caption The Kilkenny Cats; or, Old and Young Ireland "coming to the scratch." Subtext   "Oh, leave them alone,   They'll fight to the bone, And leave naught but their tails behind 'em." References ↑ Punch vol.11 Introduction p.vii Notes 57 ↑ Artists and "Suggestors": The Punch Cartoons 1843-1848 John Bush Jones and Priscilla Shaw Victorian Periodicals Newsletter Vol. 11, No. 1 (Johns Hopkins University Press: March 1978), p.10
Title: The Kilkenny Cats or Old and Young Ireland coming to the scratch Punch 1846-08-08 v11 p57
Credit: Punch 1846-08-08 v10 p57
Author: Image: Richard Doyle (1824–1883) Text: Horace Mayhew (1816–1872)
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License: Public domain
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