Caption:
The Irish Frankenstein. "The baneful and blood-stained Monster ...". The quotation is from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Charles Stuart Parnell is depicted, with 'his monster' which represents the Fenian movement. Punch, or the London charivari. London, May 20, 1882. The cartoon is anti-Irish propaganda and is a reference to the Phoenix Park assassinations. Source: P.P.5270, page 235.