10 x 8-inch High quality photo printed on Fuji film Crystal Archive paper.
Framed and mounted behind glass. Black wood frame.
Inscription reads: Volunteer Mairead Farrell 1957 - 1988
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Mairead Farrell was born in Belfast in 1957. She was a brilliant student who excelled at her exams. But Mairead had already thought deeply on her future and at the age of 18 she joined the IRA.
It wasn't long before Mairead was imprisoned but her intelligence and ability quickly ensured that she was to become the Officer Commanding the sentenced women prisoners. On December 1st 1980 Mairead Farrell, Mary Doyle and Mary Nugent went on Hunger Strike alongside their fellow prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh.
It was while in the hospital wing on the night of December 18th that Mairead and her comrades first heard that the Hunger Strike in the H-Blocks was over. Only after confirmation from their O/C on December 19th, Mairead and her comrades decided to call off their Hunger Strike.
Mairead was a tireless worker and Volunteer and it was while on active service in Gibraltar that she and her fellow comrades, Dan McCann and Sean Savage, were summarily executed in broad daylight on Sunday 6th of March 1988.
A major campaign of disinformation ensued, orchestrated by the British but despite their lies and hypocrisy the truth slowly emerged that the three Volunteers were in fact unarmed and were gunned down by undercover British soldiers.
She was buried with full military honours.