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John Dooley Reigh (d. Manchester, 25 February 1914) was a political cartoonist who probably came from County Wexford, although nothing his known of his early life. In 1875 he painted a banner for the Regular Carriers in Dublin. He drew cartoons for Zoz, which closed in 1877. By the early 1880s he was creating a weekly colour cartoon for the Saturday edition of United Ireland, which were generally favourable to the paper's founder Charles Stewart Parnell and the Irish Parliamentary Party. His work also appeared in The Nation (as "Spot"?) and the Shamrock. His pencil portrait of Parnell, dated 1891, is in the National Gallery of Ireland. Parnell himself said "Reigh was the only one who could do justice to my handsome face."

See alsoEdit

• Cartoons by J. D. Reigh

ReferencesEdit

• Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century, Merlin Publishing, 2002
• RootsChat: Wexford Seamen
• Collins Collection of Irish Political Cartoons, University of Illinois, which contains a number of cartoons by Reigh
• Multitext Project in Irish History (1), (2)
• International Institute for Social History: Today in 1893: 4 March
• National Gallery press release, February 2001

Online referenceEdit

• John Dooley Reigh on Wikipedia