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Irish & concerned about HIV/AIDS? Irish & living with HIV/AIDS? Working with Irish clients? : here is a service for you! / Postively Irish Action on AIDS (PIAA).

A military doctor prescribing whiskey lotion for a soldier's sprained foot - his patient requesting Irish. Wood engraving by A.C. Corbould, 1885.

Tobacco: an Irishman, a Scot and an English sailor smoke, take snuff and chew respectively. Coloured aquatint by Hunt, c. 1833, after W. Summers after C. J. Grant.

Young and Irish : AIDS, know the facts : emigrating to Britain? Living in Britain? / produced jointly by AGIY, Action Group for Irish Youth, Postively Irish Action on AIDS (PIAA).

A doctor examining a patient and enquiring about his health, leading to a mis-apprehension. Coloured lithograph, c.1848(?), by Gnat.

Boer War: a busy hospital ward on St. Patrick's day with a wounded Irishman being offered shamrock by a visiting lady. Process print after R. Macbeth after A. Johnstone, c. 1900.

Robert Peel as a pugilist attacking night watchmen with the intention of replacing them by the police force. Etching by Paul Pry (W. Heath).

Two Irishmen in Brighton open a smuggled barrel of what they think is whiskey with a red-hot poker, but it contains gunpowder and explodes. Etching after Cruikshank.

Irish Gay Helpline : an information, support and listening services for Irish gay men.

Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.

Atlas of the great Irish famine, 1845-52 / editors, John Crowley, William J. Smyth and Mike Murphy ; GIS consultant, Charlie Roche ; editorial assistant, Tomás Kelly.

An Irish bachelor sits threading a needle to mend his ragged clothes. Lithograph by T. Maguire, 1855, after E. Nicol.

The Irish : emigration, marriage, and fertility / Robert E. Kennedy, Jr.

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Irish Gay Helpline : an information, support and listening services for Irish gay men.

Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.

Atlas of the great Irish famine, 1845-52 / editors, John Crowley, William J. Smyth and Mike Murphy ; GIS consultant, Charlie Roche ; editorial assistant, Tomás Kelly.

An Irish bachelor sits threading a needle to mend his ragged clothes. Lithograph by T. Maguire, 1855, after E. Nicol.

The Irish : emigration, marriage, and fertility / Robert E. Kennedy, Jr.