Christmas
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The Great Sacrifice (British print, 1914)
Text: NA. Year: December 1914. Publisher: The Graphic. Artist: James Clark. Additional information: British print showing Christ looking down from the cross upon a dead soldier. The illustration was printed by ‘The Graphic’, a London-based newspaper that included the print in its Christmas issue with a caption from John 15:13: ‘Greater love hath no man…
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O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree… (Soviet Christmas leaflet, 1941)
Text: ‘O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree…’ Year: 1941. Publisher: NA. Artist: NA. Additional information: Soviet “Christmas card” from the Second World War depicting a dead German soldier lying beneath a Christmas tree on the Eastern Front. Dropped over German positions ahead of Christmas. Reverse text urges German soldiers to end the war and blames…
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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…
