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

Interior view of Bridewell Hall

Cloth Fair

View of the Wall of London on Tower Hill

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