Posters From The Northern Ireland "Troubles" of the 1970's

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I found these today, clearing out my garage.

Posted for interest, & not for any political discussion please.

Some fertilizers were declared illegal because of chemical content - used for home made explosives:

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Issued by the Security Forces - speaks for itself:

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Highland Fusiliers, an officer on the right, distinguished even in an image of this poor quality by his light coloured puttees, & thus equally as distinguishable to a sniper. For this reason many officers resorted to wearing the darker khaki shade that their men wore rather than the light beige private purchase ones..

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A UVF item - Augustus "Gusty" Spence, Commander of the Ulster Volunteer Force, ex British soldier & life term prisoner replaces the illustration of the Queen:

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A Republican Poster:

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Anti internment poster issued by the "Political Hostages Release Commitee" in 1973:

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The strike being the Protesant Workers Strike of 1978:

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Frank Stagg, died on hunger strike whilst in custody:

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A fold out poster from the "Republican News":

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Bernadette McAliskey nee Devlin, the youngest member of the Westminster Parliament at the time she was elected, aged 21 - in 1969 I think?

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The "culottes" the female figure is wearing were very popular in Northern Ireland in the early 1970's, they were a form of trouser worn by the Scottish pop band the Bay City Rollers, with tartan strips down the outside leg. It was supposedly possible to tell the wearers political loyalties from the colours of the tartan.

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A poster from the Falls Road, Belfast, 1976:

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A Securty Forces poster, coloured by a British squaddie. As with some posters of other factions, it portrays a stereotype:

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Refers to the Republican prisoners / internees rioting at "Long Kesh" - "Her Majesty's Prison the Maze" also known to British troops as "the Lazy K" in 1974:

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Recruiting poster for the IRA "Belfast Brigade":