England’s Vietnam (Irish album artwork, 1977)

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Text: England’s Vietnam.

Year: 1977.

Publisher: NA.

Artist: NA.

Additional information: The album cover features an image borrowed from a famous Republican poster promoting the Belfast Brigade, suggesting that The Troubles in Northern Ireland would be to Britain what the Vietnam War was to the US. The record is a compilation of folk songs performed by ‘The Men of No Property’, a group of anonymous, Belfast-based songwriters known for their Republican sympathies. Their name is derived from a quote attributed to 18th-century Republican Wolfe Tone, emphasizing the support of the disenfranchised class.