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image: A contingent of Republican fighters are grouped behind sandbags, sheltering from British bullets and shells. A
woman, representing the Irish Republic, hovers above them. She is in classical dress, and is holding the Irish Republican tricolour in her
right hand and a palm branch in her left.
text: THE BIRTH OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC - 1916. The Art Depot 6.Mary St. Dublin. Copyright Design.
This poster commemorates the Easter Rising of 1916, a rebellion by Irish Nationalists against British rule. The Rising
was almost entirely Dublin-based, with the focus of resistance at the General Post Office. The rebels held out for almost a week before
being forced to surrender. The leaders of the Rising were executed, and thus became heroes and martyrs to the cause of an Irish Republic.
The female figure, rallying the fighters and waving the Irish tricolour flag, represents the spirit of the Irish Republic. This figure
draws on a long tradition of French revolutionary images. The best known example of these is Delacroix’s painting ‘Liberty Leading the
People’ of 1830 in which the female figure of Liberty, waving the French tricolour, leads the French people over the Paris
barricades. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Allegory resistance / guerillas Ireland flag / banner / standard UK commemorative British Home Front (Ireland) & Easter Rising & & 24/4/1916=29/4/1916 3 empire / commonwealth Action portrait / personification militia Home Front events / anniversaries Ireland 1914-1923 British Home Front (Ireland) & Irish Rebellion & 24/4/1916=29/4/1916 First World War Easter Rising 1916 Propaganda Irish Republican Army Easter Uprising 1916 | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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