WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR 5 MAY 2018

History 162 1969 Republican posters. Two silk-screen printed posters, Major Chichester Clark juggling five balls alternately labelled ‘Mick’, ‘Prod’, ‘Mick’, ‘Prod’, captioned ‘Do You Trust the Mad Major?’; and an RUC officer wearing a gas mask and carrying a pistol and truncheon captioned ‘Take Down Your Barricades and Let Us In!’. (2) Estimate €150-€200 approx (£130-£170 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 162 163 1970 Raglan Street, Falls Curfew, British Army steel helmet with visor. A British Mk IV steel helmet, fitted with a perspex visor for riot and crowd control in Northern Ireland. Provenance: Collection Mr Patrick O’Hagan, Belfast. Recovered July 1970 from Raglan Street, following the ‘Falls Curfew’ riots. The Falls Curfew was a British Army operation in July 1970 in Belfast. The operation began as a house-to house search for weapons in the Falls district. Local youths attacked the British soldiers with stones and petrol bombs. The troops’ initial response of firing CS gas quickly escalated into gun battles between British soldiers and the IRA. Lieutenant General Sir Ian Henry Freeland, commander of the British Army in Northern Ireland, ordered that the area, comprising 3,000 homes, be sealed off. A curfew was imposed and house-to-house searches recommenced, now with continuous skirmishes between troops, residents and the IRA. The searches became increasingly destructive and a large amount of CS gas was fired into the area. Many residents complained of abuse at the hands of the soldiers. On 5 July, the curfew was brought to an end when thousands of women and children from nearby Andersonstown marched into the curfew zone with food and groceries for the locals. Estimate €100-€150 approx (£90-£130 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 163