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MARGARET HALEY AND THE CHICAGO TEACHERS’ FEDERATION 117 of what we know today about this ardent Irish-American progressive, labor unionist, and feminist would have been lost had Haley not left us her autobiography, written in parts between 1910 and 1935, but published only in 1982. As yet no biography of this leading Irish-American labor leader exists. Nevertheless, Haley’s eVorts were fundamental to the growing economic and professional freedom of public school teachers in the early years of this century. —Loyola University Chicago COVER From the National Library of Ireland’s rich collection of commercial and political ephemera—a collection enriched by the holdings of the Royal Dublin Society Library and of the E. R. McClintock Dix Collection— comes this poster issued by Cumann na nGaedheal for either the 1932 or the 1933 election, which the party lost both times to Fianna Fáil. Cosgrave ’s Cumann na nGaedheal represented the values of Free State Ireland —property interests, law-and-order, liberal economic policies, cultural nationalism—as may be seen in this poster. The party’s admonition to the electorate depends, of course, from the title of Sean O’Casey’s famous play of 1923. The artistry of the visual image may echo that of a 1927 issue of Dublin Opinion depicting Ernest Blythe—then finance minister and, therefore, chief taxman—casting the threatening shadow of the gunman. Here an anonymous commercial artist, probably commissioned by the advertising firm of O’Kennedy and Brindley, follows the visual conventions of the aYche—flat planes of color creating a roadside pastoral in the manner of Paul Henry, the shade of the gunman massed above the scene in the manner of the anti-Treaty stance of de Valéra’s Fianna Fail party, and, thus, of that party’s threat to an idealized rural home and hearthside. Again, this poster appears in Treasures from the National Library of Ireland (1994) and we reproduce it on the cover of ÉIRE-IRELAND with the help of the library’s staV and the permission of Dr. Patricia Donlon, its director. ...