On Monday 19 February 1883, newspaper readers across the north of England were presented with verbatim reports from the courthouse in Kilmainham, where, on the previous Saturday, James Carey, after turning Queen’s evidence, described the plot to murder Lord Frederick Cavendish, Chief Secretary for Ireland, and his Under Secretary, Thomas Burke, in Dublin’s Phoenix Park […]
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In February 1869, police in Liverpool arrested Michael James Kelly, a young Irish picture dealer and stationer, at his shop in Tithebarn Street for ‘seditiously exposing to view and selling a certain wicked, malicious, and seditious print against our Lady the Queen and Government’.[1] This ‘seditious print’, a chromo-lithograph imported from New York, was entitled […]
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