Erin's Little Difficulty Product:Canvas with King William III seated

with King William III seated on the throne

This relates to a riot staged by Irish Catholics in Birkenhead during October 1862

'Vase and flowers'

This relates to a Supplementary Budget introduced by Gladstone following his election victory over the Conservative Party earlier in the year

The plan also shows a proposed cattle market in Lambeth

Erin's Little Difficulty Product:Canvas with King William III seated'Erin's Little Difficulty', 1865. Britannia exclaims Yes, My Dear! That's the sort of Drilling to do Him Most Good! Ireland, in the shape of Erin, giving a Fenian representative of simian appearance a good thrashing. Mrs Britannia, comfortably matronly, looks on approvingly. This was a time when an insurrectionist organisation, funded and supplemented with men from the Irish Americans, began to cause trouble. Amongst its principal aims was the