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- Created by
- Conrad Atkinson born 1940
- Title
- Quote, mounted on board, about Northern Ireland, by John Hewitt, an Irishman in Coventry
- Date
- [c.1975]
- Medium
- Printed text, mounted on board
- Dimensions
- 210 x 147 mm
- Description
- This quote, by John Hewitt: '¿a people endlessly betrayed by our own weakness, by the wrongs we suffered in the long twilight over bog and glen, by force, by famine and by glittering fables which gave us martyrs when we needed men¿', 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 201020/3/8
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