Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: CHRISTOPH, Henning
Event Date: 1982-01
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.023075

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, stamped on label: [star shape] / Credit: [copyright] 1982 / Henning Christoph [name handwritten] / from BLACK STAR; stamped: [illeg.]; typed label: 7818//32A…Co. Antrim, NORTHERN IRELAND…Jan. 1982 / … At an Orange Hall in Co. Antrim, members of the / “Third Force,” a paramilitary Protestant organization of / which Ian Paisley is the spiritual and political leader, / demonstrate their readiness to do battle with the IRA. / The “Third Force” is strongest in the areas along the / border with the Republic; most of its members are / farmers, posses at least one weapon, and maintain good / contacts to the police and military; handwritten: 7818//32A

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: NORTHERN IRELAND / CIVIL WAR
Retouching: N