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An ill marsupial creature with a human head and long tail is seated in a chair being treated by two nurses; representing Daniel O'Connell's role in the County Carlow election of 1835. Coloured lithograph by R. Seymour, 1835. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
The marsupial has the head of Daniel O'Connell. He is attended by two nurses, one of whom brings him some gruel in a bowl, while the other dresses a painful joint (labelled "Carlow") in his tail. The nurses have the faces of British politicians (unidentified, though the left one has some resemblance to Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, and the right one to Joseph Hume). O'Connell cries out: "Ah! oh! ah! gently gently I can't bear much handling of it." Two small humans are shown in the pouch of the creature: the left one is Lord John Russell, a Liberal ally of O'Connell who defended O'Connell against the charge of manipulating the Carlow election result by bribery. Carlow had some features of "pocket boroughs" controlled by a single family: the opossum lived in a burrow (borough) and had a pocket
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