«Cover Photograph taken on the outskirts of Coalisland, Co. Tyrone, 17 February 1980. It shows one of the earliest marches organized by the National H-Block/Armagh Committee and features many of the anti-criminalization campaign's key activists. Soon after this march, John Turnley (second row, second left) and Miriam Daly (first row, first left) were assassinated. In January 1981 Bernadette McAliskey (first row, second right) survived an assassination attempt. Two months later, Frank Maguire MP (second row, first right) died, leading to the election of Bobby Sands. In May 1981, Fergus O'Hara (first row, third right) was elected to Belfast City Council on an anti-H Block ticket. Photograph reproduced by permission of Derek Speirs.» – From the back cover of Smashing H-Block. The Rise and Fall of the Popular Campaign against Criminalization, 1976-1982, by F. Stuart Ross, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2011
















