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pin badge / Tourist Trophy, Ulster 1933
Badge of the 1933 Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy motor car race in Ulster. Shamrock shaped brass badge. Inscription on blue enamelling. Flag of Nothern Ireland, with the Red Hand of Ulster, in red and white. An engraving of a racing car.
pin badge / Tourist Trophy, Ulster 1934
Pin badge, brass with black and white enamel. Leaves around the letters 'TT', with a chequered flag and a motor car. 'Ulster 1934' underneath. Badge of the 1934 Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy motor car race in Ulster.
recruitment poster / Join the People's Army / The Provisionals
Poster, recruitment, black figure of gunman on yellow background - 'Join the People's Army / The Provisionals'. One of five posters relating the Troubles, Northern Ireland, from the 1970’s ff.
recruitment poster / TV Interference / We apologise for the censorship in our programmes / do not adjust your set
Poster, 'TV Interference / We apologise for the censorship in our programmes / do not adjust your set'. Blue background, with a television set in red, the screen displaying the words 'Section 31'. Regarding Section 31 of the Broadcasting Authority Act, used in media news coverage of the Troubles...
recruitment poster / IRA 1983
Poster, recruitment, 'IRA 1983'. With verse by James Connolly. One of five posters relating the Troubles, Northern Ireland, from the 1970’s ff.
recruitment poster / Join the Volunteer Soldiers of the Belfast Brigade
Poster, recruitment,with image of Ireland in green, with the north coastline formed into a hand gripping an AK-47 rifle, with the words 'Join the Volunteer Soldiers of the Belfast Brigade'. One of five posters relating the Troubles, Northern Ireland, from the 1970’s ff.
recruitment poster / Join the People's Army / The Provisionals
Poster, recruitment, black figure of gunman on yellow background - 'Join the People's Army / The Provisionals'. One of five posters relating the Troubles, Northern Ireland, from the 1970’s ff.
poster / Ulster Says No
Poster, red background with the text, in white and blue, “Ulster Says No”.
certificate of profiency / Ulster Volunteer Force
Ulster Volunteer Force Certificate of Profiency (drill and shooting). Printed by W. & G. Baird, Belfast. Blank example.
pamphlet / Spectacles for Ulstermen, 1916
Pamphlet, Sinn Fein Tract No.5 titled ‘Spectacles for Ulstermen’. By Herbert N. Pim. Dublin: The Irishman, 1916.
pamphlet / Sinn Fein in Tabloid Form, 1916
Leaflet or handbill, ‘Sinn Fein in Tabloid Form’.Probably 1917 to 1918. Possibly part of the Sinn Fein Tract series by Herbert N. Pim. Dublin: The Irishman.
lapel badge / Ulster Volunteer Force
Lapel badge, metal, of the Ulster Volunteer Force, with Red Hand of Ulster in centre. Stamped ‘3696’ on reverse.
recruitment poster / Smash English Rule in Ireland
Recruitment poster, with seven images of civil disturbances on the Falls Road, Belfast. 'Smash English Rule in Ireland / Support the Irish Republican Movement'. Issued by the Belfast Republican Publicity Bureau. Probably 1970s.
recruitment poster / Join the Volunteer Soldiers of the Belfast Brigade, 1975
Recruitment poster, with image of Ireland in green, with the north coastline formed into a hand gripping an AK-47 rifle, with the words 'Join the Volunteer Soldiers of the Belfast Brigade'. The notes on the reverse dates the poster from 14 April 1975, when it was bought for 10 pence from young...
recruitment poster / End Internment / Organise Against Repression, 1975
Poster, 'End Internment / Organise Against Repression'. With an image of R.U.C. riot police beating a man. Collected in the area of the Lower Falls, Ballymurphy, August 1975. Issued by the I.R.S.P.,(Irish Republican Socialist Party), I.A., Essex Gate, Dublin 8.