sentences:  Cummings responded that he had a "cartoonist's licence" to depict the Irish as "extremely violent, bloody-minded, always fighting, drinking enormous amounts, getting roaring drunk".Cummings also added that the IRA's violent acts did tend to "make them look rather like apes, though that's rather hard luck on the apes".This caused several writers to accuse Cummings of promoting anti-Irish prejudices.