3-052-417 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The State of Ireland: serving a process near Headford, Galway, 1880. 'Our Illustration of the prevailing distress in Ireland is a Sketch made by our Special Artist in the neighbourhood of Headford, in the county Galway, at a place called Balrubbuck. The scene is that of a crowd, with threatening gestures and violent language, besetting a process-server, who is in the act of affixing a legal notice of ejectment [ie eviction] to the door of a poor tenant's cottage. He is protected by several of the military constabulary, under the orders of their commanding officer, and other soldiery are near at hand if required'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.