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- Created by
- Conrad Atkinson born 1940
- Title
- Quote, mounted on board, about Ireland, by the cartoonist, Rowel Friers
- Date
- [c.1975]
- Medium
- Printed text, mounted on board
- Dimensions
- 210 x 147 mm
- Description
- This quote, by the cartoonist Rowel Friers: '¿ I think Ireland has always been a sort of amateur dramatic society, playing a sort of minor Westminster her with part-time actors¿', may have been exhibited at 'A Shade of Green, An Orange Edge', by Conrad Atkinson, at the Art Council Gallery, Belfast in May 1975.
- Format
- Document - writings
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Purchased by Tate Archive from Margaret Harrison, November 2010.
- Reference
- TGA 201020/3/6
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