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Development & Design during the early Free State
Audience
Post Primary
Resource Type
Downloadable Resource
Audience
Post Primary
Resource Type
Downloadable Resource
Tour Ireland England Scotland and Wales. Features various figures, collage style, including a man playing fiddle front and center.

Illustrated travel poster designed by Pieter Sluis; EPH G25. 

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Introduction Text
This downloadable resource introduces tourism as an important industry for the new Irish government and changing visual representations of Ireland in tourism design.

This activity will introduce students to visual analysis activities using various posters designed to promote travel to Ireland including designs for PanAmerican Airlines, the An Tóstal festival and work by the Dutch designers who moved to Ireland and reconfigured graphic design in Ireland. 

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We have also provided a teacher's guide for this activity.

Teacher's Guide

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