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by randompwd 2142 days ago
Every inch of the British establishment was involved in anti-irish propaganda inlcuding multiple cartoons depicting the Irish as less evolved/symian.

for just a flavour: https://ukdiss.com/examples/analysing-the-political-cartoons...

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/apes-psych...

This kept happening up to and through the 1970s.

Also worth mentioning this prick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cummings