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Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes Night is celebrated in Great Britain on the 5th of November. Below is an 1867 anti-Irish Guy Fawkes illustration from Punch magazine. Fenian refers to Irish nationalists.

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American magazine Harper’s Weekly ran a similar anti-Irish image, titled The Usual Irish Way of Doing Things, in 1871.

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