Rab Kerr

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.^[1] He is married to Sinn Féin politician Jennifer McCann.^[2]

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, [2001]
Snapshots of Belfast 1930-1939; Authors: Joe Baker & Robert Kerr. Publisher: Glenravel Local History Project, [2001]
Snapshots of Belfast 1940-1949; Authors: Joe Baker & Robert Kerr. Publisher: Glenravel Local History Project, [2002]
Republican Belfast: A political tourist's guide; Author: Robert Kerr, Publisher: MSF Press, [2008], ISBN 978-0-9560264-0-8
Three Gaols: Images of Crumlin Road, Long Kesh and Armagh Prisons; Author: Robert Kerr. Publisher: MSF Press, [2011], ISBN 978-0-9568069-0-1^[3]
The Belfast Mural Guide; Locate Series; Author: Robert Kerr, Publisher: MSF Press, [2014], ISBN 978-0-9568069-1-8 ^[4]
An Treoir do Mhúrphictiúir Bhéal Feirste; The Belfast Mural Guide (Publication Language:Irish); Author: Robert Kerr, Publisher: MSF Press, [2014], ISBN 978-0-9568069-2-5^[5]

References

↑ Republican Belfast at the heart of Irish history. An Phoblacht, 4 December 2008
↑ http://www.tribune.ie/2007/03/11/83124.html
↑ http://lh-nipr-prism.qub.ac.uk/TalisPrism/
↑ http://www.belfastmuralguide.com/
↑ http://www.belfastmuralguide.com/

Provisional Irish Republican Army

General

Organisation

Attacks

Insurgency, 1969–1977	Battle of St Matthew's 1970 RUC booby-trap bombing Scottish soldiers' killings Balmoral showroom bombing Abercorn bombing Donegall St bombing Battle at Springmartin Bloody Friday Claudy bombing Coleraine bombings M62 coach bombing Guildford pub bombings Brook's Club Bomb Attack British Airways bombing attempt Birmingham pub bombings Bayardo Bar attack Caterham Arms pub bombing London Hilton bombing Green Park Tube Station Bombing Scott's (restaurant) bombing Walton's Restaurant bombing Drummuckavall ambush Balcombe Street siege Kingsmill massacre

Long War, 1977–1988	Jonesboro Gazelle downing La Mon restaurant bombing Warrenpoint ambush Dunmurry train explosion Lough Foyle attacks Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings Harrods bombing Woolwich barracks Brighton hotel bombing Ballygawley Land Mine Attack Newry mortar attack Ballygawley attack JHQ Rheindahlen bombing (Germany)

Peace Process, 1988–1998	Corporals killings Lisburn van bombing 1988 Netherlands Attacks Ballygawley bus bombing Jonesborough ambush Deal barracks bombing Derryard attack Derrygorry Gazelle downing RFA Fort Victoria bombing Proxy bombings Downing St mortar attack Mullacreevie ambush Glenanne barracks bombing Teebane bombing Cloghoge attack 1992 Manchester bombing South Armagh sniper campaign Warrington bomb attacks Cullaville occupation Bishopsgate bombing Battle of Newry Road Shankill Road bombing Crossmaglen Lynx downing Drumcree conflict Docklands bombing 1996 Manchester bombing Osnabrück mortar attack Thiepval barracks bombing Coalisland attack July 1997 riots

Chiefs of Staff

Seán Mac Stíofáin (1969–72)
Joe Cahill (1972–73)
Seamus Twomey (1973)
Éamonn O'Doherty (1973–74)
Seamus Twomey (1974–77)
Gerry Adams (1977–78)
Martin McGuinness (1978–82)
Ivor Bell (1982–83)
Kevin McKenna (1983–97)
Thomas "Slab" Murphy (1997–2005)

Personalities
(Volunteers)

Espionage &
Supergrasses

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

Associates

Derivatives

Prominent killings

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