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By: Jeremy Cresswell

Jeremy Cresswell — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:28:43 +0000

Yes the Irony would be the sympathy towards the monster within Mary Shelly's work. Many modern commentators on that cartoon (and there have been quite a few) concentrate on the the fact it is a monsterous 'other figure'. Some comment on the created aspect (Charles Stuart Parnell, M.P. & head of the Land League, is cast as Victor Frankenstein), but no modern commentators seem to take into account that the monster has been wronged. It is probably because most people in the 20th and 21st centuries only know the movies and not the book. Unfortunately the print shown above has cut off the rest of the caption:
THE IRISH FRANKENSTEIN
"The baneful and blood-stained monster***yet was it not my Master to the very extent it was my Creature?***Had I not breathed into it my own spirit?"*** (Extract for the Works of C. S. P-rn-ll, M.P.)

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:03:14 +0000

There's an irony in that "Irish Frankenstein" that probably escaped most of the people who saw it.