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Happy St. Patīs Day. Now, get back to work. I think this one may belong in the "Badvertising" gallery.
Starving people fled Ireland to find prosperity in America, and THIS was supposed to lure them back? A giant, magnetic WEED SATELLITE with doggerel poetry urging people to come TOIL in the MILLS?
As ad campaigns go, I donīt think this one was too successful. On loan from the collection of Margaret and Jonathan Skean (see Links page)Caption: "Slowly, yet
surely, the day doth break/ Oīer Erinīs sorrow, and Erinīs wrong,/ On hill and valley, river and lake,/ Thereīs the joyous echo of freedomīs song;/ The haunted mills in vale and glen/ With toilers rife we yet may see;/ We yearn to
draw you home again/ To share in our prosperity." Credits: Valentine, Dublin |
