Strangling the Monster Finish:Stretched The Goons of BBC fame

The Goons of BBC fame at Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment

Harry Greg

'The Agony in the Garden'

27th August 1981

Strangling the Monster Finish:Stretched The Goons of BBC fame'Strangling the Monster', 1881. The Liberal Prime Minister, Mr Gladstone, is seen strangling the three headed monster of the Irish Land League. This follows the introduction of the Protection of Person and Property Bill by the Liberal Chief Secretary for Ireland, William Forster. It proposed the arrest and custody of anyone suspected of complicity in agrarian outrages. There had certainly been much violence and unrest in Ireland, and Mr Forster gave