JOE McCANN: SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE
Official Sinn Féin, 1972 

Silk-screen poster based on a celebrated photograph, which also appeared in Life magazine. It captured the shadowy figure of Official IRA volunteer Joe McCann against a backdrop of the blazing Inglis’s bakery. This followed an attack on the British Army near the bakery in Eliza Street in the Markets area of Belfast. A legend within Republican circles, McCann, though unarmed, was shot dead near his home by members of the Parachute Regiment on 15^th April 1972. The flag shown is the Starry Plough, originally used by James Connolly’s Irish Citizen Army. McCann would certainly have seen himself within this Republican Socialist tradition.