Catalogue Number
Temp.2025.18
Object Name
Badge
Title
Rock the Blocks
Place
Ireland; Northern Ireland
People
Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Description
Round white badge, "Rock the Blocks" in bold black text overlaid on red barbed wire with two wires untangling to look like an H. 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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