However, the photo had already circulated for two decades in various forms. He believes that someone must have taken control of the negatives and passed them on.
When the paper discontinued on May 25th 1995, the main building remained open for a month and "people were going in and out". One version was eventually printed in Colman’s 2004 book "All Changed: 50 of Photographing Ireland" on page 81 with the caption: "A woman IRA volunteer on active service in West Belfast with an AR18 assault rifle."ĭoyle asserts that the photo remained in the Irish Press archives. They considered it inappropriate to print a photo showing a woman with a gun". "I offered the photo to the Irish Press", Doyle remembers, "but the editors refused to print it in the paper. He spent one decade of his career in Northern Ireland, capturing, among other photos, the British paratroopers firing at unarmed protesters in Derry on Bloody Sunday. Manage Preferencesįrom RTÉ Archives, a 1972 episode of Aurora profiles photographer Colman Doyleĭoyle, who has been described by art journalist Liam Flynn as "the doyen of photo journalists in Ireland", worked for The Irish Press.
Please review their details and accept them to load the content. We need your consent to load this rte-player content We use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. The photo shows a long-haired woman in a polka dot dress carrying an assault rifle. In a conversation with the author for RTÉ Brainstorm, Doyle insists that he does not remember the street where the photo was taken, nor the exact date, but claims that "it was not staged". She was standing behind a corner, still holding that gun but I only managed to take the photo after she had fired." One day in 1973, photographer Colman Doyle passed by Agnes Street on his way from the Ardoyne towards the city centre: "I heard someone firing shots and then I saw this woman. The car used in the Loyalist bombing that detonated in Dublin had been hijacked at Agnes Street, just off Crumlin Road in North Belfast. It also saw Loyalist paramilitaries bringing the Northern conflict to the streets of Dublin, where a car bomb exploded in Sackville Place, killing Thomas Douglas and injuring 17 others. It saw both the UK and Ireland joining the EEC. Analysis: how Colman Doyle's 1973 photo of a woman IRA volunteer in Belfast became one of most iconic shots of the Troubles
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