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
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