Ireland
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Freedom ’74 (Irish Republican poster, 1974)
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…
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Join the volunteer soldiers of the Belfast Brigade (Irish Republican poster, ca. 1970s)
Text: Join the volunteer soldiers of the Belfast Brigade. Year: ca 1970s. Publisher: Provisional IRA. Artist: NA. Additional information: Shows Ireland holding a rifle. Design later reworked for the cover of England’s Vietnam, an anti-British folk album.
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England’s Vietnam (Irish album artwork, 1977)
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…
