Justice to Ireland stress College Hill

College Hill

the People's Choice

each man hides behind his back the birch with which he hopes to belabour the opposition during the new session

February 1965

actress Elisabeth Sladen and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

Justice to Ireland stress College Hill'Justice to Ireland', 1869. The Liberal Party having won the General Election at the end of 1868, Mr Gladstone became Prime Minister. One of his first acts was to introduce a Bill to disestablish the Irish Church. This cartoon shows Gladstone sacrificing the Irish Church at the feet of a blindfolded Justice. The message was that this act was not to be taken as licence for further Fenian activity, nor for Catholicism to attempt to take control of