Ireland
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Thatchers hit men (British magazine, 1988)
Text: Thatchers hit men. Year: October 1988. Publisher: NA. Artist: NA. Additional information: The cover design of the ‘Troops Out’ newspaper from October 1988 features an SAS soldier, likely related to Operation Flavius, an SAS operation in Gibraltar in March of that year in which three Irish Republicans were shot. ‘Troops Out’ was the official…
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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…
