Poster: into the ranks

    Recruitment and the historical palimpsest of the city: soldiers parade through College Green, Dublin, past a building that formerly housed, until the Act of Union in 1800, the Irish Parliament.
 

 
    Lithograph; artist unknown; printed by Alexander Thom and Co.; circulated by the Central Council for the Organisation of Recruiting in Ireland (CCORI) sometime in 1915. Unless otherwise noted, all posters were originally distributed in Dublin; they are reprinted with kind permission from the War Poster Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.