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.
On the 16th March 1988 Milltown Cemetery saw the funerals of 3 IRA Volunteers, Mairead Farrell, Dan McCann & Sean Savage who had been executed (while unarmed) in Gibraltar on 6th March. The funerals were targetted by a Loyalist terror group who attacked the crowds of Mourners in broad daylight in front of the worlds media using handguns and grenades, killing Thomas McErlean, Kevin Brady & John Murray. At the funeral of the slain mourners the crowds witnessed a car driving erratically & at speed, 2 men with handguns were overpowered by the crowds fearing a further assault. The men, David Howes and Derek Wood, corporals in the British Army were subsequently shot.
