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Gibraltar/Milltown Martyrs 20th Anniversary

Gerry Adams and Brendan Hughes carry volunteer Sean Savage's coffin out of Dublin Airport as Martin McGuinness looks on

Sinn Fein leader Sean Murray looks on as the national flag is placed on the coffin of his cousin, volunteer Dan McCann

Martin McGuinness and Joe Austin at the coffin of volunteer Sean Savage


Joe Cahill and Pat Doherty look on as volunteer Sean Savage's coffin is blessed

Gerry Adams and Dublin republican Christy Burke place Sean Savage's coffin into the hearse for the journey home to Belfast

Thousands gather to watch the hearses carrying the 3 volunteers leave Dublin Airport


Massive crowds walk with the cortege in Dundalk

Led by a lone piper, the cortege moves through Dundalk

The family of Volunteer Mairead Farrell follow her coffin on the way to the funeral mass in Saint Agnes's chapel


Comrades of volunteer Mairead Farrell form a guard of honour alongside the hearse

Thousands of mourners make their way up the Andersonstown Road to Saint Agnes's chapel

The 3 hearses leave Saint Agnes's chapel after the funeral mass


The funeral cortege makes its way past the Felons club

The RUC and British army swamp the area around volunteer Dan McCann's Cavendish Street home before his funeral

The funeral proceeds down the Andersonstown Road


A memorial to the 3 volunteers

An IRA firing party fires a volley of shots over a memorial to their 3 fallen comrades

Volunteer Mairead Farrell's coffin is carried in Milltown Cemetery


Family members carry the coffin of volunteer Mairead Farrell

A grenade explodes in Milltown Cemetery after being thrown by a unionist assassin

Mourners look on as the unionist gunman, acting in collusion with the British army and RUC, attempts to flee the scene of the attack


The unionist gunman fires at mourners attending the burial ceremony

Members of the Sinn Fein leadership at the funeral

A wounder mourner is comforted by the father of volunteer Sean Savage


IRA volunteers fire a volley of shots at the top of the Rock Streets in honour of volunteer Kevin McCracken, shot dead by the British army in Turf Lodge as the bodies of the Gibraltar martyrs arrived home

The national flag is placed on volunteer McCracken's coffin by Padraig Wilson

The cortege makes it way through the streets of Turf Lodge


The cortege goes down Norfolk Parade on its route to Milltown Cemetery

IRA volunteers fire a volley of shots in honour of volunteer Caoimhin MacBradaigh at South Link

Undercover British soldiers attack the funeral of volunteer MacBradaigh


Volunteer Dan McCann

Volunteer Mairead Farrell

Volunteer Sean Savage


Volunteer Kevin McCracken

Milltown Martyr Thomas McErlean

Milltown Martyr John Murray


Milltown Martyr volunteer Caoimhin MacBradaigh

Gerry Adams speaks at the Gibraltar martyrs mural at the former Andersonstown RUC barracks site

Jennifer McCann MLA and Sinead Moore, comrades of Mairead Farrell, at the Gibraltar mural


Families of the 7 heroes at the mural

Families of the Gibraltar martyrs in Gibraltar on the 20th anniversary of the volunteer's deaths

Gerry Adams, Seanna Walsh and Lucilita Breathnach at a vigil in memory of the Gibraltar martyrs


Young people carry portraits of the 7 martyrs at the 20th anniversary commemoration march

Sean Savage's brother, Robert, at the commemoration march

Niall O'Donnghaile, Pearse Doherty, Ann NicBradaigh (sister of Caoimhín MacBradaigh) Gerry Adams and Pat Rice at Caoimhin MacBradaigh Sinn Fein cumann launch


Sally McErlean, whose son Thomas was killed in the Milltown attack, at a vigil in memory of the Milltown martyrs

Sinn Fein's Joe Austin at a vigil in memory of the Milltown martyrs