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Colour photograph of a poster depicting a shepherd, a figure on a donkey, the Northern Star, and Long Kesh prison, Northern Ireland, with the caption, ‘Lon Kesh Concentration Camp: N.I.C.R.A. End Internment’

[c.1974–5]

Conrad Atkinson, ‘Colour photograph of a poster depicting a shepherd, a figure on a donkey, the Northern Star, and Long Kesh prison, Northern Ireland, with the caption, ‘Lon Kesh Concentration Camp: N.I.C.R.A. End Internment’’ [c.1974–5] — © Conrad Atkinson

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Created by: Conrad Atkinson born 1940
Title: Colour photograph of a poster depicting a shepherd, a figure on a donkey, the Northern Star, and Long Kesh prison, Northern Ireland, with the caption, ‘Lon Kesh Concentration Camp: N.I.C.R.A. End Internment’
Date: [c.1974–5]
Medium: Colour photograph
Dimensions: 126 x 177 mm
Format: Photograph - print
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Purchased by Tate Archive from Margaret Harrison, November 2010.
Reference: TGA 201020/5/45

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Material relating to works by Conrad Atkinson TGA 201020 (160)

Photographs taken by Conrad Atkinson during his work in Northern Ireland for the exhibition, 'A shade of green, an orange edge' TGA 201020/5 (66)

Colour photograph of a poster depicting a shepherd, a figure on a donkey, the Northern Star, and Long Kesh prison, Northern Ireland, with the caption, 'Lon Kesh Concentration Camp: N.I.C.R.A. End Internment' TGA 201020/5/45

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Colour photograph of a poster depicting a shepherd, a figure on a donkey, the Northern Star, and Long Kesh prison, Northern Ireland, with the caption, ‘Lon Kesh Concentration Camp: N.I.C.R.A. End Internment’

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