 Moran's weekly paper "The Leader" often published caricatures of him in the period 1912–18.Field was politically active from the 1870s and had extensive connections in the labour movement and in 'Irish Ireland' organizations such as the Gaelic Athletic Association and Gaelic League.In the bitter 1892 general election, standing as a Parnellite, he took the St Patrick's seat in the Parnellite stronghold of Dublin from the sitting anti-Parnellite Nationalist MP William Martin Murphy by the wide margin of 3,991 votes to 1,110.