The year 1870 witnessed the launch of the first two satirical magazines in Ireland—Zozimus and Blarney—both of which carried political cartoons drawn by celebrated Irish artists including John Fergus O’Hea (“Spex”), Michael Fitzgerald, and a young Harry Furniss. Emerging at a time of increasing Irish nationalism, these weekly, Dublin-based magazines envisaged their role explicitly as responding to what were seen as the misrepresentations and slanders perpetuated on Ireland and the Irish by the London press, especially by Punch, Fun, and Judy. At the same time Zozimus and Blarney were influenced by (and sometimes borrowed from) their London counterparts, and their opinions and contents generated comment (positive and negative) in Irish and British newspapers. Rooted in their own newspaper publishing houses (the Nation and the Irishman) there was a further creative tension connected to their different positions on the Irish nationalist political spectrum, given visual representation in a political atmosphere dominated by the Franco-Prussian War. Nationalist Ireland’s response to the European crisis differed markedly from that of the British government, via a profoundly anti-British lens, whilst also displaying a lack of unanimity over support for the Second Empire, hopes for the Third Republic, and the promise and horror of the Paris Commune. This chapter will explore how these distinctive and divergent reactions were expressed in visual form and how artists and editors sought to communicate their ideas, with what success and with what impact.