Irishmen - avenge the Lusitania. Join an Irish regiment to-day / W.E.T. ; John Shuley & Co., Dublin. – Vintage Wall Art
![Irishmen - avenge the Lusitania. Join an Irish regiment to-day / W.E.T. ; John Shuley & Co., Dublin., [Dublin] : Central Council for the Organisation of Recruiting in Ireland, [1915] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0d/0d9fdcece87d-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Irishmen - avenge the Lusitania. Join an Irish regiment to-day / W.E.T. ; John Shuley & Co., Dublin., a vintage poster rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Irishmen - avenge the Lusitania. Join an Irish regiment to-day / W.E.T. ; John Shuley & Co., Dublin.
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Its call to "avenge the Lusitania" ties this Irish recruiting poster to one of the most shocking events of the early war. On 7 May 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed the Cunard liner off the southern coast of Ireland near Kinsale, and roughly 1,200 people died, many of them civilians. Issued in Dublin later that year by the Central Council for the Organisation of Recruiting in Ireland, the poster channeled that anger into enlistment, and its subjects of drowning, lifeboats and submarine warfare show how the sinking was presented to the public at home. Dublin printers John Shuley & Co. produced the color lithograph.
| Created / published | [Dublin] : Central Council for the Organisation of Recruiting in Ireland, [1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph ; 76 x 50 cm. |
| Genre | War posters Irish 1910-1920.Chromolithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title from item. Wt. P. 110 - 7,500. 5/'15. |
| Subjects | Lusitania (Steamship)--Disasters. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. Recruiting & enlistment--Ireland--1910-1920. Submarine warfare--German--1910-1920. Drowning--1910-1920. Lifeboats--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,027 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 566_Irishmen_avenge_the_Lu_1915 |
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