The Propaganda Archive

A project by Propagandopolis to create the internet’s largest archive of propaganda posters, postcards, pamphlets, stamps and other ephemera.

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The Birth of the Irish Republic (Irish poster, 1916)

Text: The Birth of the Irish Republic.

Year: ca. 1916.

Publisher: The Art Depot.

Artist: NA.

Additional information: The poster shows a group of Irish rebels firing from behind sandbags, while a personification of the Irish Republic waving the tricolour hovers above them holding a palm branch. Issued by The Art Depot, a Dublin-based printshop owned and run by Irish nationalist Joe Stanley.