The Troubles
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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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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.
