England wants men! Lord Kitchener is confident he can entrap, cajole, gull and force 100,000 Irishmen to enlist in the demoralised, decadent, crimestained, blood-sodden British Army...
| Summary: | Anti-recruitment handbill reminding Irish people to keep 'complete independence' from England. Refers to "the Famine of [18]'47", the Manchester Martyrs, Lord Roberts and the Boer War and "Howth Sunday, July 26th 1914" [a reference to the Howth gun running and the King's Own Scottish Borderers shooting into a crowd on Bachelors Walk where four civilians were killed and thirty-eight people were wounded]. "The Home Rule Bill is only a sop - the crumbs that fall from the table of the rich man Dives England to the beggar Lazarus Ireland!' Don't believe the foul lies that the subsidised so called 'Irish Press' is circulating about the Germans". At foot of sheet: "VOLUNTEERS / If the war is prolonged England will be in a state of starvation and will seize all the Irish food stuffs. Then the Irish will starve...England wants men but by God they will not get Irishmen!". |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published / Created: |
S.l. :
s.n.,
n.d., ca. 1914-1915
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| Notes: | Two copies of this handbill are held in the Department of Ephemera; formerly held at call number POL/1910-20/102. Physical description: 1 handbill; 26 x 15 cm. more |
| Contained in: |
Pamphlet volume D147 [Item 30] |
| Call Number | View In | Collection |
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D147 |
Main Reading Room |
Irish Large Books |
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EPH C57 |
Collection unavailable |
Ephemera |
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EPH C57a |
Collection unavailable |
Ephemera |
Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland.
