Single sheet satire – caricature – is one of the most distinctive and original art forms to emerge from England in the eighteenth century. Artists such as James Gillray (1756-1815) and Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) combined devastating wit with graphic brilliance to lampoon the great and create timeless images inspired by moments of fleeting controversy or scandal. Availing of a legal loophole, under which copyright law of images did not apply to Ireland, a business of pirating caricatures by London satirists flourished in Regency Dublin. The work of these plagiarists – which is paradoxically inventive and vibrant – as well as prints of Irish subject matter by English caricaturists such as Gillray, is the subject of the book Artists and Pirates: Satirical Prints in Georgian London and Dublin.