EPHEMERA

Title: Songs - Poems and Verse
Object Name: Booklet
Date Made: c.1970s
c.1970s
Place Made: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast
Belfast
Description: Booklet entitled ' The Orange Cross; Songs, Poems and Verse' (Second Edition), subtitled 'Their only crime is Loyalty', offshoot of the Orange cross newspaper. A collection of loyalist songs and poems including ‘There’s a wee spot in Ulster’ and ‘Ulster won’t die’. Another poem, ‘The Four Steep Inn’ describes an IRA bomb attack on a pub on the Shankill Road on 29 September 1971 which killed two men and injured 27 other people.
Materials: paper
Place Collected
Catalogue Number: BELUM.W2011.2059
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