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photograph / Loughnane Brothers, Galway, 1920

Two photographs: the burned bodies of the Loughnane Brothers; Patrick and Harry, killed by British forces (thought to be by the Black and Tans) at Gort, South Galway, November 1920. Shown in their coffins, with the lids removed, held upright for the photograph by a group of men of the locality.

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