Propagandopolis
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Merry Christmas! (Irish Republican Christmas card, ca. 1985)
Text: Merry Christmas! Year: 1980s. Publisher: Provisional IRA. Artist: Francis ‘Lucas’ Quigley. Additional information: Illustration from a Christmas card published by the Provisional IRA in the 1980s showing Santa with a sackful of weapons and a RPG. Next to him stands a Christmas tree with a ballot box underneath, while ballots rain down in reference…
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Irish Republican mural, 1992
Text: You can kill the revolutionary but not the revolution. Year: 1992. Publisher: NA. Artist: NA. Additional information: Mural shows Irish revolutionary James Connolly and Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, a soldier of the Irish Republican Army and a Black Panther member. The Irish flag is painted behind them, with a banner at the top showing…
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To Freedom (Irish postcard, 1917)
Text: To freedom. Year: 1917. Publisher: Sinn Féin. Artist: NA. Additional information: Illustration shows Ireland riding past Dublin’s General Post Office carrying the tricolour. On the horse’s bridle you can see ‘Sinn Fein’ written. The postcard was published in the wake of the Easter Rising of 1916 when Irish Republicans rebelled against British rule
