The Troubles Archive is a collection of artworks from artists who produced work during and relating to the Troubles in Northern Ireland

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FLASH BACK

An agreement to set up an Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is signed by the B

RANDOM PICK

The Last House in our Street

Written after Sands lost my way to a concert in Belfast in the early 1980s, he found myself in a street where all the windows and doors were blocked up..all the houses were empty except for one. Outside the only inhabited house in the street, a little girl was playing alone, throwing a ball against the wall…he tried to imagine how Belfast might look through her eyes and, remembering the sound and rhythm of the ball bouncing off the wall and bac

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