EPHEMERA : POSTERS

Title: Wanted for Stealing Fishing Rights
Object Name: Political poster
Date Made: 1971
1971
Place Made: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast
Belfast
Description: Facsimile 'Wanted' poster with cartoon of a robber baron. Printed in black on a purple background. This was one of a number of posters produced by People’s Democracy as part of an attempt at political mobilisation in rural areas. In this instance the issue was ownership of fishing rights in Lough Neagh the Toome Eel Fishery Company is targeted as being ‘robber barons’.
Materials: paper
Place Collected
Date Collected: 1973
1973
Catalogue Number: BELUM.O526.1973
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