Is your conscience clear on these two great questions / printed by Alex. Thom & Co., Ltd., Dublin. – Vintage Print
![Is your conscience clear on these two great questions / printed by Alex. Thom & Co., Ltd., Dublin., [Dublin] : Central Council for the Organisation of Recruiting in Ireland, [1916] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c8/c8be7631dd82-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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Is your conscience clear on these two great questions / printed by Alex. Thom & Co., Ltd., Dublin.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Is your conscience clear on these two great questions / printed by Alex. Thom & Co., Ltd., Dublin.
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Its entire message rests on two printed questions asking whether a man's reasons for staying out of the Army are genuine or merely excuses, and whether he will do his duty only when the law compels him. Issued in 1916 by the Central Council for the Organisation of Recruiting in Ireland and printed by Alex. Thom & Co. in Dublin, it appeared in the months after the Easter Rising, when recruiting in Ireland was difficult. Rather than show soldiers or battlefields, it appeals to conscience and tries to shame men into enlisting voluntarily, since conscription was never applied in Ireland during the war.
| Created / published | [Dublin] : Central Council for the Organisation of Recruiting in Ireland, [1916] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 76 x 50 cm. |
| Genre | War posters Irish 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title from item. Poster is text only, including the two questions: 1. Have you a real reason for not joining the Army, or is that which you put before yourself as a reason, after all only an excuse? 2. Are you only going to do your duty when the law says you must? |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Great Britain. Recruiting & enlistment--Ireland--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,042 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1449_Is_your_conscience_clea_1916 |
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