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Brent Phillips

Brent Phillips is the Audiovisual Archivist at the Rockefeller Archive Center. He is a graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, with research interests in the performing arts, cinema history, and the preservation of endangered languages.

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Left side of the political poster reads "Éire" (Ireland), right side reads "West Britain". In between both images reads "Seachtain na Saoirse". Bottom of the print reads "On which side are you on? Language Collection Now On."
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