Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.1132
Object Name
Badge
Title
Smash H-Block - Political status now
Place
Ireland; Northern Ireland
Date
circa 1981
Description
Round yellow badge, "Smash H-Block!" across the edge. In the centre is "Political status now" beside a silhouette drawing of two people shouting, one with an arm raised. The H-blocks refer to the blocks of Maze Prison in Northern Ireland, where members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who were imprisoned, including Bobby Sands who died on hunger strike there.
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