Militaria Archive
Irish Independence - Belfast.
A collection of photographs (October 2011) showing some sights and scenes of Irish Republican/Irish Independence related history in Belfast. Included are the Peace Wall and Murals of the Falls Road, The Clonard Martyrs Memorial Garden as well as the Republican Plot at Milltown Cemetery. Also featured are James Connolly's one time Belfast home. The Long Kesh/Maze, H-Block prison site location of the historically significant 1981 Hunger Strikes and also 1983 Mass prison breakout (also pictures from a Maze Prison escape lecture). Finishing with pictures from the excellent Roddy McCorley Society Museum.
H-Block Maze Prison. A former WW2 USAAF then RAF Airbase. Converted to H-Block prison as a temporary measure which became permanent. The most secure prison in West Europe & Scene of the 1983 IRA mass escape and the 1981 H-Block Hunger Strike for the return of Political Status. Mostly destroyed with H-Block 6, one Cage and the Hospital ward among the surviving remains of this historically significant structure.
