Visitors moved by Belfast exhibition on the Disappeared

Up to 10,000 people learn of the suffering and loss of bereaved families

Louth TD Ged Nash: attended exhibition. Photographer: Dara Mac Dónaill

Louth TD Ged Nash: attended exhibition. Photographer: Dara Mac Dónaill



Ten-year-old Alessandra Fleming, over from Perth in Australia, was walking around the exhibition room in Belfast City Hall listening to her mother Christina explaining about the Disappeared.

Quietly and with a young girl’s solemnity, she took in the detail written on the 7ft x 4ft exhibition boards about the 17 people who were abducted, killed and secretly buried in bogs and beaches in different parts of the island.

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