Image: "Riots in Belfast. British army riot troops smash down Milltown cemetery gates to disperse IRA sympathizers. April 19, 1976" @imagestate.com, Credit: © Tramonto / age fotostock / Imagestate
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Image: "Riots in Belfast. British army riot troops smash down Milltown cemetery gates to disperse IRA sympathizers. April 19, 1976" @imagestate.com, Credit: © Tramonto / age fotostock / Imagestate
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)Today I was reading a Cuban blog on politics, graves and dissidence ("Los policías del camposanto", "The Graveyard's police" http://www.desdecuba.com/generaciony/?p=4627 ), something that reminded me of things read a long time ago ( a parallel to Belfast 1976 came to my mind - see image above).
In the attempt to find more about this cemetery however, I stumbled upon a website: http://www.findagrave.com/; this website founded in 1995 by Jim Tipton to find graves of famous people around the world.
Anyone able to suggest some past and current research on "grave tourism" (also referred as "death tourism" and "graveyards tourism") please let me know!
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