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Images

  • Irish & concerned about HIV/AIDS? Irish & living with HIV/AIDS? Working with Irish clients? : here is a service for you! / Postively Irish Action on AIDS (PIAA).
  • A military doctor prescribing whiskey lotion for a soldier's sprained foot - his patient requesting Irish. Wood engraving by A.C. Corbould, 1885.
  • Tobacco: an Irishman, a Scot and an English sailor smoke, take snuff and chew respectively. Coloured aquatint by Hunt, c. 1833, after W. Summers after C. J. Grant.
  • Young and Irish : AIDS, know the facts : emigrating to Britain? Living in Britain? / produced jointly by AGIY, Action Group for Irish Youth, Postively Irish Action on AIDS (PIAA).
  • A doctor examining a patient and enquiring about his health, leading to a mis-apprehension. Coloured lithograph, c.1848(?), by Gnat.
All images (26)

Catalogue

    • Ephemera

    Irish Gay Helpline : an information, support and listening services for Irish gay men.

    | Date: [1992?]
    • Pictures

    Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.

    | Date: [approximately 1840?] | Reference: 26908i
    • Books

    Atlas of the great Irish famine, 1845-52 / editors, John Crowley, William J. Smyth and Mike Murphy ; GIS consultant, Charlie Roche ; editorial assistant, Tomás Kelly.

    | Date: 2012
    • Pictures
    • Online

    An Irish bachelor sits threading a needle to mend his ragged clothes. Lithograph by T. Maguire, 1855, after E. Nicol.

    Nicol, Erskine, 1825-1904. | Date: March 1st 1855 | Reference: 27637i
    • Books

    The Irish : emigration, marriage, and fertility / Robert E. Kennedy, Jr.

    Kennedy, Robert Emmet, 1937- | Date: [1973]
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