Despite
the direct address to the farmer, the poster is actually designed, like all
pastoral images, for urban consumption: a wide city street superimposed
on the countryside betrays the fact
that the poster was distributed mainly in Dublin and Belfast. This image
joins with many others like it to
represent Ireland as the kind of threatened rural retreat that E. M. Forster
and his ilk wished to preserve
in England.
All
posters are reprinted with kind permission from the War Poster Collection,
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
