3-071-031 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches of Irish character in Dublin, 1881. 'The jovial Jarvey; A Rara Avis; Quay Porters; "The U[?]arin of the Grane"; A Dublin Maid; A Black Spot (The Coal heaver); Hibernian Military School Boys; Cockle Women; An Apple Woman; Trinity College Porters; "Frish Dublin Bay Herrin'"...That " Dublin maid," for example, whose sweet little face peeps forth in the middle of the page adorned with Mr. Harry Furniss's Sketches, is not one in a thousand, but one of a thousand to be met with anywhere and everywhere on the banks of the Liffey. This is, perhaps, the best argument for Home Rule that the Irish nation will ever be able to produce...The remaining Sketches are worthy of inspection as fair specimens of the manners, costumes, airs, and employments of different classes of the city and suburban populace; though it will at once be perceived that this description cannot include the grave and dignified College porters, the pupils of the Hibernian Military School, or the exquisitely polished Hansom cab-driver, imported from the West-End of London, who competes to great advantage with the "jovial Jarvey" of the old-fashioned Dublin jaunting-car'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.