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The Republican Creggan Estate in Derry

Date 1971
Location Londonderry United Kingdom Derry City Northern Ireland
Dimensions Image: 12 1/2 x 18 3/4 in. (31.8 x 47.6 cm)
Paper: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Print medium Photo-Gelatin silver

Internment, a British army policy of incarceration without trial, had begun, sweeping several thousand Catholic men into prison camps (some up to six years) for their alleged IRA sympathies. Outrage in the Catholic community led to civil disobedience, including daily marches and rent strikes. Gilles Peress

Copyright

© Gilles Peress
For reproduction please contact Magnum Photos

Credit line

Gift of the Photographer to the W. Eugene Smith Legacy Collection

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