Download or read book Irish Sketch-Book Illustrated Edition written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of two travel books written by Thackeray (the other one being 'The Paris Sketch Book') Marked by it's hostility to Irish Catholics, the book appealed to British prejudices, and Thackeray was given the job of being Punch's Irish expert, often under the pseudonym Hibernis Hibernior. It was Thackeray, in other words, who was chiefly responsible for Punch's notoriously hostile and condescending depictions of the Irish during the Irish Famine (1845-51).