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Irish republican and writer

Robert Kerr
Personal details
Born	Robert Kerr Belfast, Northern Ireland
Website	http://www.belfastmuralguide.com/

Robert 'Rab' Kerr is an Irish republican ex-prisoner who spent 18 years in British prisons, during which he spent three years on the 'Blanket Protest' in the H-Blocks and took part in the 'Great Escape' from Long Kesh in 1983. Since his release from prison he has co-authored four books of photographs documenting the history of Belfast during the last century, as well as producing a number of booklets and magazines. In 2008 he wrote what has been described as the first republican tourist guide to Belfast: Republican Belfast: A Political Tourist's Guide. He is married to Sinn Féin politician Jennifer McCann.

Bibliography

New Lodge: 100 years in pictures; Authors: Joe Baker & Robert Kerr. Publisher: Glenravel Local History Project, 2000
Snapshots of Belfast 1920–1929; Authors: Joe Baker & Robert Kerr. Publisher: Glenravel Local History Project,
Snapshots of Belfast 1930–1939; Authors: Joe Baker & Robert Kerr. Publisher: Glenravel Local History Project,
Snapshots of Belfast 1940–1949; Authors: Joe Baker & Robert Kerr. Publisher: Glenravel Local History Project,
Republican Belfast: A political tourist's guide; Author: Robert Kerr, Publisher: MSF Press, , ISBN 978-0-9560264-0-8
Three Gaols: Images of Crumlin Road, Long Kesh and Armagh Prisons; Author: Robert Kerr. Publisher: MSF Press, , ISBN 978-0-9568069-0-1
The Belfast Mural Guide; Locate Series; Author: Robert Kerr, Publisher: MSF Press, , ISBN 978-0-9568069-1-8
An Treoir do Mhúrphictiúir Bhéal Feirste; The Belfast Mural Guide (Publication Language:Irish); Author: Robert Kerr, Publisher: MSF Press, , ISBN 978-0-9568069-2-5

References

Republican Belfast at the heart of Irish history. An Phoblacht, 4 December 2008
"'Bobby Sands was a great role model - he was never arrogant'". Archived from the original on 20 November 2007. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
http://lh-nipr-prism.qub.ac.uk/TalisPrism/
"Home". Archived from the original on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
"Home". Archived from the original on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2014.

Provisional Irish Republican Army

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Organisation

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1970–1979	Battle of St Matthew's Falls Curfew 1970 Crossmaglen bombing Scottish soldiers' killings Red Lion bombing Balmoral showroom bombing Abercorn bombing Donegall Street bombing Battle at Springmartin Battle of Lenadoon Bloody Friday Claudy bombing Newry customs bombing Old Bailey bombing Honey Trap killings King's Cross & Euston bombings Coleraine bombings 1973 Westminster bombing M62 bombing Clogher attack Houses of Parliament bombing Tower of London bombing Guildford pub bombings Harrow School bombing Brooks's Club bombing Woolwich pub bombing British Airways bombing attempt Birmingham pub bombings London pillar box bombings Talbot Arms bombing Bristol bombing Telephone exchange bombings 1974 Oxford Street bombing Carlton Tower & Portman Hotel shootings Mountainview attack Bayardo Bar attack Forkhill attack Caterham Arms bombing Tullyvallen massacre London Hilton bombing Piccadilly bombing Trattoria Fiore bombing Scott's Oyster Bar bombing Walton's Restaurant bombing Drummuckavall ambush Balcombe Street siege Kingsmill massacre West Ham station attack Olympia bombing Store bar shooting Stag Inn attack Garryhinch ambush Jonesborough Gazelle downing La Mon restaurant bombing Crossmaglen ambush Warrenpoint ambush Brussels bombing Dungannon attack
1980–1989	Dunmurry train bombing Lough Foyle attacks Glasdrumman ambush 1981 Bessbrook attack Chelsea Barracks bombing Hyde Park & Regent's Park bombings Harrods bombing Royal Artillery Barracks bombing Brighton hotel bombing Ballygawley land mine attack Newry mortar attack Ballygawley attack Enniskillen mortar attack RUC Birches barracks attack Rheindahlen bombing Loughgall ambush Operation Flavius Corporals killings Lisburn bombing Aughanduff Lynx shootdown 1988 Netherlands attacks Glamorgan barracks bombing Inglis Barracks bombing Ballygawley bus bombing Jonesborough ambush Clive Barracks bombing Deal barracks bombing Mayobridge attack Derryard attack
1990–1991	Derrygorry Gazelle downing South Armagh sniper Downpatrick roadside bomb Operation Conservation 1990 Wembley bombing Carlton Club bombing London Stock Exchange bombing Honourable Artillery Company bombing Lichfield gun attack RFA Fort Victoria bombing Proxy bombings Downing Street mortar attack Paddington & Victoria station bombings Mullacreevie ambush Glenanne barracks bombing Coagh ambush Musgrave Park Hospital bombing Crumlin Road Prison bombing
1992–1997	Teebane bombing Clonoe ambush London Bridge bombing Staples Cnr bombing Baltic Exchange bombing Sussex Arms bombing Cloghoge attack Coalisland riots Forensic Science Laboratory bombing Stoke Newington Road bomb 1992 Manchester bombing Night of the Long Knives 1993 Harrods bombing Warrington bombings Cullaville occupation Camden bombing Bishopsgate bombing Finchley Road bombings Battle of Newry Road Shankill Road bombing 1993 Fivemiletown ambush Heathrow attacks Crossmaglen Lynx downing Drumcree conflict Docklands bombing Aldwych bus bombing 1996 Manchester bombing Hammersmith Bridge bombing Osnabrück mortar attack Thiepval barracks bombing Coalisland attack 1997 Northern Ireland riots

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Eamon Collins
Denis Donaldson
Joseph Fenton
Kevin Fulton
Raymond Gilmour
Martin McGartland
Sean O'Callaghan
Freddie Scappaticci (allegedly "Stakeknife")

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