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

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.

Date: 1972
Period: Cold War
Made by: Organisers of a New York benefit for the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (tickets via the National Association for Irish Freedom; poster by W. Chris Gorman Associates)
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: Movement
Regime: Nixon Administration
Leader: Richard Nixon
Audience: Diaspora or minority
Purpose: Fundraise
Themes: Empire and colonialism, Race and ethnicity
Techniques: Name-calling
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Yanker Poster Collection (via Wikimedia Commons), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: No known restrictions on publication (LOC rights advisory: "Published without copyright notice"); US publication 1972
W. Chris Gorman Associates, c. 1972; Library of Congress, Yanker Poster Collection, LCCN 2015650068

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.