Northern ireland troubles

TR 32962. 2nd Lieutenant Robin Martin (foreground) with Rifleman O'Reilly of 1st Royal Green Jackets man a street barricade in Belfast during the Battalion's first tour of duty in Northern Ireland

The Troubles in Northern Ireland lasted from 1969 to 1994 or so and were fertile ground for music makers.

Derry, County Londonderry

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“Culture is the pattern of taken-for-granted assumptions about how a given collection of people should think, act, and feel as they go about their daily affairs” -Joynt & Warner, 1996 Culture is all socially transmitted behavior, arts, architectures, languages, signs, symbols, ideas, beliefs, norms, traditions, rituals, etc. which is learnt and shared in a particular ... Read more

Few photographers have switched between such extremes as Brian Aris.

Pro- IRA Graffiti.

One of the most pro-Palestinian nations in the world is not an Arab or Muslim country. It's not even in the Middle East. Polls show Ireland has some of the highest support for the Palestinians.

The Irish tradition of makeshift masks. Most of these are from Belfast. Mad photos

BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND 1972, Children running away from burning Hijacked Vehicle in West Belfast during The Troubles

Barbed wire and terrace houses in Belfast, early 70s, Northern Ireland during The Troubles

Bert Hardy. A group of men sit around chatting in the streets of Londonderry. Northern Ireland. 1955

Fifty years has passed since the day widely regarded as the birth of the Northern Ireland Troubles.