Irishmen, Avenge the Lusitania
Central Council for the Organisation of Recruiting in Ireland
John Shuley & Co., Dublin
UK 524
Poster collection
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
The Lusitania was torpedoed by the German submarine, U-20, on May 7, 1915. The ship sank in just 18 minutes, eight miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,198 of the 1,959 people aboard. Because 128 Americans had died, the British assumed that the United States would enter the war; instead, President Wilson sent a formal protest to Germany.