Irish Propaganda Posters?

**Burly Brute** · 21st July 11, 04:45 PM

I thought the rabble might find these interesting, especially the second:

Lifted from here: http://picasaweb.google.com/rsees5/Galway#

If a mod knows how to resize them and would like to do so, please feel free. I didn't realize they were so ginormous!

**davidlpope** · 21st July 11, 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by Burly Brute

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Interesting to me that they used the Royal Arms to denote the individual countries/principalities...

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 21st July 11, 05:33 PM

It's nice to see Wales (more or less) properly depicted, and of course there's the usual "slight error" in the arms of Ireland; the field should be blue, not green...

**davidlpope** · 21st July 11, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown

It's nice to Wales (more or less) properly depicted, and of course there's the usual "slight error" in the arms of Ireland; the field should be blue, not green...

Good catch. I didn't even pick up on the fact that the escutcheon of Wales was erroneous, just so happy to see it in the first place, I guess...

**TheBrus** · 21st July 11, 06:01 PM

I think the green were the "colonial" colors.

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 21st July 11, 07:30 PM

Ireland was never a colony. That said, green has been popularly associated for centuries with Ireland and the Irish people. I rather doubt the War Department was interested in "heraldic niceties" when it put together that recruiting poster, rather it wanted to "fill boots and fight the Hun" any way it could.

**Burly Brute** · 21st July 11, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown

Ireland was never a colony. That said, green has been popularly associated for centuries with Ireland and the Irish people. I rather doubt the War Department was interested in "heraldic niceties" when it put together that recruiting poster, rather it wanted to "fill boots and fight the Hun" any way it could.

Lol as with any government and any war, aye?

**Mickey** · 21st July 11, 08:17 PM

Burly, thanks so much for posting these. I'd never seen anything like them. Loved them so much I had to do a search on it and found the first one on ebay (my favorite of the two), which is now on it's way to be framed and hung on the wall.

**English Bloke** · 21st July 11, 10:12 PM

Yeah... I have several books on wartime propaganda and 20th century posters at home so I've seen them before but the whole subject is interesting to me. Cheers for posting those.

**Burly Brute** · 22nd July 11, 09:22 AM

Originally Posted by Mickey

Burly, thanks so much for posting these. I'd never seen anything like them. Loved them so much I had to do a search on it and found the first one on ebay (my favorite of the two), which is now on it's way to be framed and hung on the wall.

I am glad! That is why I post stuff like this!