Ireland
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Out of Place (Irish poster, undated)
Text: Out of place. Year: ca. 1940s, 50s. Publisher: Ailtirí na hAiséirghe. Artist: NA. Additional information: Ailtirí na hAiséirghe was a fascist party active in the 1940s and 50s. The party was short-lived – founded by Irish nationalist Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin in 1942, it gained little traction before it was dissolved in 1958.
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Government by the rich for the rich (Irish poster, 1932)
Text: Government by the rich for the rich – vote Fianna Fáil. Year: 1932. Publisher: Fianna Fáil. Artist: NA. Additional information: Published ahead of the 1932 election, the poster shows Ernest Blythe, Finance Minister of the incumbent Cumann na Gaelhael government, spurning a poor family labelled ‘the masses’ while handing a money sack to ‘the…
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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…
