Freedom ’74 (Irish Republican poster, 1974)

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Text: Freedom ’74. A quote by Irish revolutionary Padraig Pearse is printed at the bottom: ‘… and we are young. And God has given us strength, courage and counsel. He will give us victory’.

Year: 1974.

Publisher: NA.

Additional information: Design shows prisoners breaking out of a burning prison while a silhouette of a Republican soldier with an ArmaLite AR-18 looms above the scene. It was produced in response to events at the famous Long Kesh prison (‘The Maze’), with a mass escape of Republican internees in September 1974 followed by a riot and destruction of much of the prison the following month.