Troubles1970
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
Photographs donated by photographers
Troubles Gallery.
The Troubles Gallery brings together donated and licensed photography alongside recorded testimony from the live programme. Each item carries its own provenance, credit and rights information. Images marked placeholder are standing in until further donations are received.
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Historical photography highlights
Daily Life1970
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
Daily Life1970
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
Troubles1970
Barbed wire
Soldiers carrying barbed wire on a wet Belfast street — a defining image in the historical photography strand.
Credit: Germund Sjövall
Daily Life1970
Children, 1970
A group of children paused on a Belfast street corner — childhood lived alongside the early years of the conflict.
Credit: Germund Sjövall
Troubles1985
Gable-end mural, West Belfast
A muralled gable end on a Belfast terrace. Placeholder imagery pending real archive donations from contributing photographers.
Credit: Placeholder — awaiting archive donation
Daily Life1978
Terraced street, washing day
Children playing on a back street between rows of terraces — ordinary life carried on across decades of conflict.
Credit: Placeholder — awaiting archive donation
Troubles1992
Peace line at dusk
Corrugated steel and concrete cutting between two communities. Placeholder image standing in for documentary work to be donated.
Credit: Placeholder — awaiting archive donation
Daily Life1984
Belfast city centre, Saturday
Saturday shoppers in the central streets — economic life and security checkpoints sharing the same pavement.
Credit: Placeholder — awaiting archive donation
Peace Process1998
Press podium, 1998
A press conference moment from the months around the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. Placeholder until archival material is licensed.
Credit: Placeholder — awaiting archive donation
Peace Process1993
Candlelight peace vigil
Women and young people holding handmade signs at a community-organised vigil for peace.
Credit: Placeholder — awaiting archive donation
Programme1989
Cross-community women's meeting
A community hall meeting of women from different traditions — the kind of patient organising that underpinned the later peace.
Credit: Placeholder — awaiting archive donation