HISTORY - TROUBLES

Title: Glenvale Park, Glynn, County Antrim, 2020
Object Name: PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT
Maker: Bill Rolston (Primary maker)
Description: During the Covid-19 pandemic, support for the NHS on the frontline was widespread. In the predominantly unionist village of Glynn, this mural takes inspiration from the image of US soldiers raising a flag on Iwo Jima, which became an iconic image from the Second World War.
Catalogue Number: BELUM.W2024.2.45
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