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Resistance (Irish Republican poster, ca. 1981)
Text: Resistance. There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically – BOBBY SANDS, 1954-1981. Year: ca.…
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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…