LARGE Vintage Tourist Poster 101 "Irish Birds" c1980

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A Fantastic Vintage Poster A collage of 101 Irish Birds Here are pictured some of the most common birds of Ireland, with their English, Irish and some North American namesWater birds, house and garden birds and raptors Blank on reverse This decorative art poster is from this period - it is NOT a recent copy. This strong paper poster came from the collection of a retired "Bord Failte" photographer. In 1955 Bord Fáilte Éireann was created under the Tourist Traffic Act. (Now Fáilte Ireland - see below) THE ART OF THE POSTER (Ireland) Posters are the frequent tool of advertisers, propagandists, protestors and other groups trying to communicate a message. They aim to seduce, to exhort, to sell, to educate, to convince, to appeal, to grab the attention of those who might otherwise pass them by. They are involved in the everyday cultural, political and commercial issues. Posters can be typographic, or pictorial or both. Their impact should be emotional rather than intellectual, and so they have evolved their own visual grammar, evoking ordinary forms of familiar speech, making this new language a part of everyday life. The art of the poster really began at the end of the 19th century. Up until then, printers had a reliance on the primitive woodcut, but the discovery of lithography opened the way to refinements of colour, tone and graphic treatment never before attained in quantity. The era of the multiple image had begun. These coloured lithographic posters were the most powerful vehicles for commercial advertising in existence until the advent of commercial radio, and later television and the illustrated press. The poster was a hybrid medium where painting, drawing and typography came together in new ways, influencing each other in the process. They were unambiguous, simple, and usually had economy of image. Many were serious art objects with ingredients of everyday life, which explains why collectors often sponged and peeled them off hoardings to take home as trophies. Political posters have a long history in Ireland, many having a vision and vigour, which has been unequalled since. Our most famous poster is the 1916 Proclamation. Revolutions took their posters seriously, so also did some of the larger commercial companies in the early history of the state……….Bord Failte, The Railway Companies, Guinness etc. These images serve as documents of social history, expressing not only their own particular themes, but also the underlying attitudes and values of their time. So posters can been seen as historical, artistic and social documents. They are full of nostalgia, and eminently collectable. Irish Tourism One of the first tourist guide books about Ireland , Arthur Young’s Tour of Ireland, was published in 1780. Many beautiful places were described but if you decided to visit you had to cover large distances on horseback When canals were built in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Ireland acquired its first mass transport network. Soon afterwards the roads were improved and it became possible to travel by horse and carriage. By the middle of the nineteenth century a network of rail lines criss-crossed the country and in 1936 air travel commenced between Ireland and England. The Irish Tourist Association (ITA), which promoted 400 hotels in its first brochure in 1925, marketed the fledgling Irish Free State as a tourist destination. In 1939, Bord Cuartaoíchta na hEireann (Visitors to Ireland Board) was established by an Act of the Dáil. This organisation took over from the ITA which was the forerunner of Bord Fáilte. In 1955 Bord Fáilte Éireann was created under the Tourist Traffic Act. Today Ireland has a thriving tourism industry which contributes in the region of £3 billion to the economy each year. Irish Tourism (2007) Fáilte Ireland was established under the National Tourism Development Authority Act, 2003 to guide and promote tourism as a leading indigenous co... read more

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