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Collection StructurePoster collection
> We need not kneel/Our cause is high/Of true men there's no dearth/And our victorious rallying cry shall be/We want the earth./We only want the earth. ... No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression. If such a movement has caught hold of the imagination of the masses, they will seek a vent in song for the aspirations ... Until the movement is marked by ... revolutionary songs, it lacks one of the distinctive marks of a popular revolutionary movement. ... James Connolly.
Item Title
We need not kneel/Our cause is high/Of true men there's no dearth/And our victorious rallying cry shall be/We want the earth./We only want the earth. ... No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression. If such a movement has caught hold of the imagination of the masses, they will seek a vent in song for the aspirations ... Until the movement is marked by ... revolutionary songs, it lacks one of the distinctive marks of a popular revolutionary movement. ... James Connolly.
Collection TitlePoster collection
Date Created1949?
Description
Drawing of James Connolly.
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Language(s)
Country of Origin
Country of OriginIreland
DimensionsOverall: 25 x 21 in. (63.5 x 53.3 cm)
FormatPoster
Medium
political posters
Color
black and white
Hoover IDPoster IE 27
Record NumberXX343.9767
Collection Guidehttps://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt829015km
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