With foreign travel at a standstill, the windows of the travel agencies are filled with posters of local interest to replace the alluring pictures of other lands - and a few of our native posters are well worth looking at. There are a couple of copies of Paul Henry's work, and some good designs done by lesser known artists, but, generally speaking. Irish travel posters lack the lurid splashes of colour with which Italy, Switzerland, Germany and America call attention to their native beauty spots.
An enterprising friend of mine has found in these posters, not needed now by the agencies, a cheap, bright and particularly attractive means of decorating his country cottage. An Oige also uses posters to good advantage in the hostels. I think it was in a hostel that I saw one of Paul Henry's posters framed in very thick, unplaned wood, and the whole effect was very pleasant against the whitewashed wall.
I have heard of a man who papered his room with beer bottle labels. Here is a medium capable of stirring up memories equally pleasant!
The Irish Times, November 23rd, 1940.