1972 Press Photo PROVISIONAL IRA CALLS OFF CEASEFIRE

PROVISIONAL IRA CALLS OFF CEASEFIRE. Claiming that troops had broken the trucks a few hours earlier by firing rubber bullets and CS gas get Catholics on the Lenadoon eatate in Belfast, the Provisional IRA called off their two-week old Ulster ceasefire. PHOTO SHOWS: CS gas rises a soldier fires a rubber bullet at lorry carrying furniture which was heading a group of several hundred Catholic in Lenadoon district of Belfast. The crowd were attempting to install Catholics families in vacant houses.

Photo measures 10.25 x 8 inches.

Photo is dated 7-7-1972.

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