Troubles Gallery.

Free Belfast

Taken close to Falls Road, this donated photograph sits within the new exhibition dossier and speaks to territorial marking, rupture and atmosphere in early-1970s Belfast.

Credit: Germund Sjövall

Street under construction

A child walking through a landscape of rubble and rebuilding — the exhibition material frames these photographs as records of everyday life as much as conflict itself.

Credit: Germund Sjövall

Children in the street

Children gathered around a debris pile in a residential street, showing how play, neighbourhood life and political tension occupied the same space.

Credit: Germund Sjövall

Barbed wire

Soldiers carrying barbed wire on a wet Belfast street — a defining image in the historical photography strand.

Credit: Germund Sjövall

Children, 1970

A group of children paused on a Belfast street corner — childhood lived alongside the early years of the conflict.

Credit: Germund Sjövall

Gable-end mural, West Belfast

A muralled gable end on a Belfast terrace.

Terraced street, washing day

Children playing on a back street between rows of terraces — ordinary life carried on across decades of conflict.

Peace line at dusk

Corrugated steel and concrete cutting between two communities.

Belfast city centre, Saturday

Saturday shoppers in the central streets — economic life and security checkpoints sharing the same pavement.

Press podium, 1998

A press conference moment from the months around the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.

Candlelight peace vigil

Women and young people holding handmade signs at a community-organised vigil for peace.

Cross-community women's meeting

A community hall meeting of women from different traditions — the kind of patient organising that underpinned the later peace.