Edmund Dwyer Gray
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Edmund William Dwyer Gray was an Irish newspaper proprietor, politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was also Lord Mayor and later High Sheriff
Gray c. 1880s
Hibernia (personification)
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Hibernia is a national personification of Ireland. She appeared in numerous cartoons and drawings, in particular, during the nineteenth century.
Edmund Dwyer Gray
…representation of both County Carlow and the new constituency of Dublin St Stephen's Green, and chose to represent the latter. Memorial cartoon depicting Hibernia in mourning, published in Parnell's United Ireland newspaper shortly after Gray's death. He was imprisoned for six weeks in 1882 for remarks made in…
"Britannia protecting her sister Hibernia from the anarchy of Irish nationalism" – Punch, 1881