This spring, BC's Burns Library hosted "Troubled Images," posters from the Northern Ireland Political Collection of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.

Left: silkscreen image of the unionist Rev. Ian Paisley, c. 1960

Center: an image borrowed from the American Vietnam-era POW/MIA flag by the Ulster Democratic Party/Loyalist Prisoners Association, 1995

Right: artwork by Robert Ballagh for Féile an Phobail, "The People's Festival," West Belfast, 1993

Posters courtesy of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast

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