Heath (William) pseud. Paul Pry.

, Thomas McLean, 1829.
a political satire in response to the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829, reflecting the anxiety of the British ruling class. It depicts the prominent Irish nationalist, Daniel O’Connell, known as ‘The Liberator’, wearing on his head both a barrister’s wig and a bishop’s mitre, the latter decorated with a shamrock and adorned with bells to symbolise folly. He is striding to the right, towards a door under a partially obscured sign announcing ‘St Stephen’s, No Trespassers, Men-Traps Constantly Set, Beware’. Behind him a procession comprising an Irish mob, many with gaping mouths and wielding shillelaghs, headed by a bloated priest holding a banner in support of O’Connell and ‘Unconditional Emancipation’. At the far left an Irish woman with a grotesquely caricatured face, in bare feet, wearing a ragged skirt and a soldier’s red tunic, smoking a pipe and exclaiming ‘Stop wid ye now – are ye goin’ to lave the ladies behind – ye blackguards’,.
255 by 360mm (10 by 14¼ inches).