They provided hard-hitting commentary on events during one of the most troubled periods in Irish history and included original caricature portraits of politicians like Michael Collins, Eamon de Velera and Edward Carson.

BBC: Artistic bombs..Irish history in cartoon form

They provided hard-hitting commentary on events during one of the most troubled periods in Irish history and included original caricature portraits of politicians like Michael Collins, Eamon de Valera and Edward Carson.

BBC: Cartoons that courted controversy

In the 1960s Ireland's heavily agricultural economy, almost wholly dependent on exports to Britain, was only just emerging from the misguided protectionism that since the 1930s had been the main plank of Eamon De Valera's ill-advised economic policy.

ECONOMIST: The luck of the Irish