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title: Benefit night and rally for the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (Brooklyn, 1972)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nicra-benefit-night-brooklyn-1972/
description: 'Ticket poster for a Brooklyn benefit dance: a pen caricature of a heavy figure in a top hat and a Union Jack waistcoat dangles two small marionettes from…'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Pen caricature of a heavy figure in a Union Jack waistcoat holding two marionettes on strings, on a 1972 benefit-ticket poster. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Benefit night and rally for the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (Brooklyn, 1972)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/nicra-benefit-night-brooklyn-1972.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/nicra-benefit-night-brooklyn-1972.jpg)

# Benefit night and rally for the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (Brooklyn, 1972)

Ticket poster for a Brooklyn benefit dance: a pen caricature of a heavy figure in a top hat and a Union Jack waistcoat dangles two small marionettes from strings, one holding a Union Jack. The drawing casts Britain as a puppeteer, while the lines below carry only the practical details: date, ticket price, venue and phone numbers.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[signature, bottom right, illegible, with '71]
BENEFIT NIGHT AND RALLY SAT. JANUARY 15TH 8PM
FOR THE NORTHERN IRELAND CIVIL RIGHTS ASSOC.
DANCING ★ AMERICAN AND IRISH ENTERTAINMENT
★ TICKETS - $10.00 (FREE BAR) ★ I.L.A. UNION HALL ★
LOCAL 1814 ★ 343 COURT ST. (AT UNION) BROOKLYN
★ TICKETS AVAILABLE AT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
FOR IRISH FREEDOM, 799 BROADWAY, N.Y.C./254-1757
FOR TICKETS IN BROOKLYN CALL 451-0008/680-9429
```

Read from the 960 px image. The signature is illegible; the digits after the apostrophe are uncertain.

[← Valiant Binh Long (booklet text page: the March 1972 crossing and the road to An Lộc)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/binh-long-anh-dung-booklet-invasion-text-1972/) [There are but two sides in a war: she fights on the side of African freedom, Gulf finances the other: Boycott Gulf →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pan-african-liberation-committee-boycott-gulf-1972/)

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