MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)'s photos with the keyword: troubles

IMG 5191-001-Donzo

30 Sep 2018 366
Paul Donnelly, our walking tour guide from Dead Centre Tours , took us around central Belfast and told us how The Troubles were experienced by the citizens on both sides of the conflict.

IMG 5174-001-Pearse Jordan & Easter Rising

29 Sep 2018 370
The board at the top is in memory of Pearse Jordan, killed in 1992 by the RUC. The mural at the bottom is another one marking the centenary of the Easter Rising. "From Bullet to Ballot The Evolution of Our Revolution" More info here: extramuralactivity.com/2017/12/18/pearse-jordan

IMG 5172-001-Not Welcome in this Area

29 Sep 2018 220
PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland), MI5 and the British Army not welcome in the Falls.

IMG 5171-001-Prince Harry Not Welcome in Ireland

29 Sep 2018 254
We saw a number of these posters on lamp posts along the Falls Road.

IMG 5169-001-ConflictResolutionServices

29 Sep 2018 1 202
This organisation provides mediation, conflict resolution and reconciliation services in the Falls area of Belfast.

IMG 5166-001-Pat Finucane

29 Sep 2018 230
Human rights activist murdered in 1989 by a British army agent as he was eating dinner with his family. This board is on the gable end of a building at the junction of Beechmount Drive and the Falls Road. www.irishlegal.com/article/mi5-agents-authorised-to-commit-serious-crimes-on-british-soil

IMG 5162-001-Miriam Daly

29 Sep 2018 308
Miriam Daly (1928 – 26 June 1980) was an Irish republican activist and Queen's University lecturer who was assassinated by the loyalist Ulster Defence Association (UDA). She was active in the civil rights movement opposing internment without trial during the Troubles. Oakman Street, Belfast.

IMG 5160-001-Gibraltar Three

29 Sep 2018 226
Board depicting the Gibraltar Three -- IRA members who were executed by the British Special Air Services in 1988 for allegedly planning a car bomb attack targeting British armed forces on Gibraltar. All three were unarmed when they were killed and no bomb was found in the vehicle they had been driving. They are buried in Milltown Cemetery, where their funeral was the site of a deadly attack by a loyalist paramilitary. Their execution was the subject of an inquest that ultimately went to the European Court of Human Rights, where the court found that the military operation that resulted in their deaths without their being charged or brought to trial was in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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29 Sep 2018 180
This is part of the high wall that separates the Catholic area of the Falls from the Protestant area to the north of Cupar Way. There are gates at some points of the wall that are opened during daylight hours.

IMG 5151-001-Peace Wall 1

29 Sep 2018 159
This is part of the high wall that separates the Catholic area of the Falls from the Protestant area to the north of Cupar Way. There are gates at some points of the wall that are opened during daylight hours.

IMG 5150-001-Bobby Sands

29 Sep 2018 285
The mural to Bobby Sands, IRA volunteer, MP, poet, athlete and revolutionary, in Sevastopol Street at the Falls Road. It's recently been repainted.

IMG 5145-001-D Company Memorial

29 Sep 2018 238
Peadar Whelan, our walking tour guide from Coiste , an organization of/for former IRA prisoners. At the rear of the Garden of Remembrance in the Falls Road is a monument in memory of the volunteers of D Company who died of natural causes. The mural behind shows a map of how the area looked at the time of the curfew of 1970, when dozens of little streets intersected throughout the area, making it possible for people to run through from one street to another when fleeing the police or the army. Soon after, the British government undertook "slum clearance" and knocked down swaths of housing, replacing it with council housing and a new street pattern of many dead ends without the through streets.

IMG 5148-001-Saoirse/Freedom

29 Sep 2018 202
This canvas tarp has a poem by Bobby Sands and the faces of the ten IRA prisoners who died on the hunger strike in the Maze Prison in 1981. It hangs on the side of the Belfast Public Library in the Falls Road.

IMG 5143-001-Falls Road Garden of Remembrance

29 Sep 2018 211
Garden and memorial for the volunteers of D Company for the IRA who died during the Troubles.

IMG 5144-001-Falls Curfew July 1970

29 Sep 2018 261
Part of the Garden of Remembrance in the Falls Road.

IMG 5142-001-Battle of LongKesh

29 Sep 2018 265
This is part of the International Wall in Divis Street that was repainted in 2016 by Danny Devenny for the marking of the centenary of the Easter Rising of 1916. In 1974, the British Army used CR gas, a toxic chemical agent, on prisoners in the Long Kesh Prison.

IMG 5141-001-Solidarity with Palestine

29 Sep 2018 1 345
Free all political prisoners. End internment, end administrative detention. Free Bilal Kayed. Oppression Breeds Resistance (with Saber Al-Ashkar depicted in the middle panel). This is a section of the International Wall in Divis Street.