Barricade Gallery

The Four Courts, Dublin, Ireland, July 1922, (1935). Creator: Unknown

The Four Courts, Dublin, Ireland, July 1922, (1935). The scene at the Four Courts in Dublin during the battle for their possession'. IRA members opposed to the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 occupied the Four Courts in April 1922. In June, exasperated with the situation and under pressure from the British to resolve it, Michael Collins, leader of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State, ordered the artillery bombardment of the Four Courts. From "The Silver Jubilee Book - The Story of 25 Eventful Years in Pictures". [Odhams Press Ltd., London, 1935]

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The Barricade, c.1871-1873, (1946). Artist: Edouard Manet

The Barricade, c.1871-1873, (1946). Manet drew on his painting The Dead Toreador for this print, also known as Civil War, of an unidentified soldier lying behind a Parisian street barricade during FranceAEs short-lived Second Empire (1852-1870). From The Etchings of the French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries, by Edward T. Chase. [The Hyperion Press, Paris, 1946]

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Revolutionary barricades on Seleznevskaya Street, Moscow, Russia, during the uprising in 1905

Revolutionary barricades on Seleznevskaya Street, Moscow, Russia, during the uprising in 1905. The Russian Revolution of 1905 broke out after troops fired on protesters trying to deliver a petition to Tsar Nicholas II outside the Winter Palace in St Petersburg on 22 January 1905. 96 were killed according to official estimates, while the oppostion claimed the figure may have been as high as 4000. The events of what came to be known as Bloody Sunday sparked a rash of strikes and demonstrations across the country. The Tsar made some concessions to the revolutionaries by signing the October Manifesto, but the revolution came to a bloody conclusion in December after the Moscow workers embarked on a general strike. The government sent in troops and fierce street fighting resulted in around 1000 deaths, with extensive damage to the city before the Bolsheviks surrendered. In the crackdown after the 1905 uprising, thousands of people were executed and imprisoned. Found in the collection of the Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk

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