[The Guardian] The children’s funeral that shook Belfast – Alain Le Garsmeur’s best photograph

The children’s funeral that shook Belfast – Alain Le Garsmeur’s best photograph

‘It was a horrendous week in Northern Ireland but it was a significant one, because these events – and this picture – helped start the peace movement’

I had been to Belfast several times. I was a freelance photographer and all my work came from the Sunday Times ringing me up and saying: “Are you interested in going to such and such a place?” They would send me abroad for a couple of weeks with a pocket full of expenses and complete freedom. But I had married a woman from Northern Ireland so had a special interest in the area.

This was taken in August 1976 on a trip to Belfast with the writer David Blundy, who was later killed by a sniper in El Salvador. It was a horrendous week but it was a significant one, because the events – and this picture – helped start the peace movement.

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