IN PICTURES: A look back at Northern Ireland in 1979

Picture Desk

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Published: 16:45 Wednesday 15 November 2017

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We’ve delved into the archive to bring you some of the images which made the headlines in Northern Ireland in 1979.

Pictures from Pacemaker Press

1979: Kids swing on a telegraph pole in Belfast

God is On Leave. Canvases are studded with mud, leaves and poppy seeds collected from the former trenches and front lines

Drawings and paintings vividly depict terrors faced by ordinary people in the Great War