EPHEMERA : POSTERS

Title: Stop the Terror and the Tears
Object Name: Political poster
Date Made: 1973
1973
Place Made: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast
Belfast
Description: Ulster Vanguard poster printed black on 'day-glo' orange. Vanguard Unionist Loyalist Coalition for Assembly Elections 1973. The phrase ‘Stop the terror and the tears’ refers to the Northern Ireland Office publication ‘The Terror and the Tears’ of August 1972. While the NIO publication was critical of the IRA Vanguard believed that the Northern Ireland Office was not taking a strong enough security line.
Materials: paper
Place Collected
Date Collected: 1973
1973
Catalogue Number: BELUM.O341.1973
Copyright: National Museums NI

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