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.

'Some had no thought of victory but had gone out to die That Ireland's mind be greater, her Heard mount up on high And yet who knows whats yet to come Gone but not forgotten. Pearse Jordan was unarmed when killed by RUC officers on the afternoon of 25 November 1992. Museum at the Roddy McCorley Society, Belfast.
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