The Appeal to the People depicts American born Eamon De Valera speaking in County
Clare, Ireland, in 1923. De Valera spent most of his childhood in Ireland and had become
a leader of the unsuccessful Easter Rebellion of 1916. He went to prison for his part
in the rebellion, and then, after his release in 1917, was elected to the British
Parliament. About the time Bellows made this lithograph, De Valera had been arrested,
once again, for opposing the settlement agreed to by the Irish and British
government.
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Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows.
