Conrad Atkinson

Colour photograph of a poster depicting the map of Ireland divided into its four provinces with two rifles either side of the map, a gun in the middle, and the caption, ‘Provisional I.R.A. Political power grows from the barrel of a gun. To Susie from Skin, Long Kesh’

[c.1974–5]

Conrad Atkinson, ‘Colour photograph of a poster depicting the map of Ireland divided into its four provinces with two rifles either side of the map, a gun in the middle, and the caption, ‘Provisional I.R.A. Political power grows from the barrel of a gun. To Susie from Skin, Long Kesh’’ [c.1974–5] — © Conrad Atkinson & © reserved

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Created by: Conrad Atkinson born 1940
Title: Colour photograph of a poster depicting the map of Ireland divided into its four provinces with two rifles either side of the map, a gun in the middle, and the caption, ‘Provisional I.R.A. Political power grows from the barrel of a gun. To Susie from Skin, Long Kesh’
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 201020/5/57

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Colour photograph of a poster depicting the map of Ireland divided into its four provinces with two rifles either side of the map, a gun in the middle, and the caption, 'Provisional I.R.A. Political power grows from the barrel of a gun. To Susie from Skin, Long Kesh' TGA 201020/5/57

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Conrad Atkinson

Colour photograph of a poster depicting the map of Ireland divided into its four provinces with two rifles either side of the map, a gun in the middle, and the caption, ‘Provisional I.R.A. Political power grows from the barrel of a gun. To Susie from Skin, Long Kesh’

[c.1974–5]

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Conrad Atkinson Colour photograph of a drawing depicting the map of Ireland divided into its four provinces, bordered by two rifles and the words, ‘Long Kesh 1975’

Conrad Atkinson Colour photograph of an illustrated piece of cloth depicting the crests of the four provinces of Ireland, a paramilitary soldier holding an Irish flag and a rifle, the words, ‘Long Kesh Internment Camp 1971’, and a list of names

Conrad Atkinson Colour photograph of a poster depicting a candle wrapped in barbed wire with the caption, ‘Long Kesh Concentration Camp, Christmas 1971. 600 Imprisoned Without Trial. Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association’

Conrad Atkinson Colour photograph of a poster depicting a person behind bars with the caption, ‘Remember them at Christmas, support the defenders of political prisoners. Buy P.D. Christmas Cards’

Conrad Atkinson Colour photograph of a poster depicting Karl Marx and James Connolly, Scottish-Irish socialist revolutionary executed after the Easter Rising, with the caption, ‘Workers of the world unite: Free all Irish political prisoners’.

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’

Conrad Atkinson Colour photograph of a poster depicting a man behind bars and the caption, ‘Christmas 1972: End Repression, End Internment’

Conrad Atkinson Colour photograph of a poster promoting a march to Armagh Jail, Northern Ireland, in support of female political prisoners

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