Pacemaker Years
(1977-1989)

By January 1977 I had a job with a photo agency, Pacemaker Press, where I stayed for the next thirteen years. Our pictures of the Troubles hit the front pages of newspapers and magazines across the world.

A Shankill Road resident looks over the wall of his home near the Cupar Street Peaceline, 1981

A Shankill Road street party for the Queen’s Jubilee, 1977.

Abandoned buildings during the redevelopment period in Woodvale, 1980.

Abandoned cars during the redevelopment of Oldpark, 1978

Abandoned house lower falls 1982

Ardoyne Peace Line, 1984

Ballymurphy mural to IRA volunteers killed by British SAS, 1987

British army sanger at Oldpark, 1984

Bombay Peace wall 1985

British Army sanger at Ardoyne, 1984

City Hall 1988

Burning bus on Donegal road 1978

Burnt out cars by joyriders at Divis Tower, 1985

Ferndale Place off the Lisburn Road,1989

College Avenue and Cave Hill, 1989

Confadden Crescent, The Pound Loney, 1985

Falls Road Library, West Belfast, 1987

Girl crosses the barricades at Albert Street 1981

Girl outside the Sinn Fein office at Ardoyne, 1989

Grosvenor road 1989

Hanna Street, North Belfast, 1986

Joy riders at burnt out cars at Divis Tower, 1985

Leeson Street during the redevelopment period, 1983.

Lower Falls during the redevelopment period, 1985.

Peace Line at Alliance Avenue Ardoyne, 1983

Peace Line at Cupar Way separating Shankill and Clonard districts in West Belfast, 1986

Peace Line at Short Strand, 1984

Samson crane in East Belfast, 1986

Pony trotting in the Markets area, 1979

Pound Loney 1983

Republican cortege at Milltown cemetery, 1987

Rockland Street, The Village, South Belfast 1978

Reverend Ian Paisley 1977

Servia street lower falls 1980 

St Patricks day Falls 1979

The Albert Bridge over the River Lagan with the Goliath crane, 1988

Two women at New Smithfield, 1988

Two boys in The Pound Loney, Lower Falls, 1976

The Crown Bar, Great Victoria Street, 1977

The Crown Bar, Great Victoria Street, 1989

The swing at Cullingtree Road, Lower Falls, 1981

The Outcasts punk rock group, 1978