“VOTE MacGuinness. Man in jail. Put him in, get him out.”

“VOTE MacGuinness. Man in jail. Put him in, get him out.”

1922

Broadside

Joseph MacGuinness was a member of the Irish Volunteers during the Easter Rising, helping lead forces in Dublin around the courthouses. Imprisoned after the suppression of the Rising, he was nominated as the Sinn Fein candidate in a 1917 by-election while in prison, using the campaign slogan on this broadside. An upset winner, he held the seat in the 1918 general election and helped form the Dail Eireann. This campaign poster for the upcoming June 1922 Irish general election uses the slogan that first made him popular. Sadly, after trying to lead efforts to stave off the coming Civil War, MacGuinness died in late May 1922. His brother Frank went on to win his seat.

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations