IMAGES FROM THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH TROUBLES GALLERY .... As the Queen was visiting Belfast city centre in 1977, soldiers came under attack a few hundred yards away in the republican Falls Road area. Tarred and feathered in Dublin. It is thought the attack was carried out on Sunday evening by two men wearing balaclavas, as a crowd including women and children looked on. Tarring and feathering has been used as a punishment for almost 1,000 years. He is one of three who received such treatment in the past 24 hours. Tarring and feathering became a popular form of punishment in Northern Ireland, carried out by the IRA, in the 1970s. Although instances of tarring and feathering have occurred globally throughout history, one of the most bizarre comes from the island of Dominica (now the Dominican Republic): in 1789, a British soldier was caught engaging in sexual an acts with a turkey and was made to "wear the bird's feathers" in his beard and around his neck. Behind her are two people. A youth tarred and feathered tied to a lamp post in the Falls Road area of Belfast. One stares off into the distance, one walks by. Date: 10/01/1971 Flames leap into the air from a double decker bus when rioters used it as a blazing barricade in … News UK News Justice, Belfast-style, for drug dealer STREET vigilantes tarred and feathered an alleged drug dealer because police refused to take action against him, it was claimed yesterday. BBC Radio 4. [1775. taken out to the public square, tarred and feathered andparaded through the town, amid the jeers of the populace, upto the liberty pole. New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2017 Northern Ireland Troubles Belfast In 50 Photos - Flashbak Her hair has been cut off and a black substance poured over her head. This man was tarred and feathered in Belfast. More info here - and the rest of the episode is really good too, but the tarring and feathering outside of the nineteenth century just stood out to me level 2 ichegoya Police have described as "brutal and barbaric" an attack on a man who was tarred and feathered in south Belfast. An alleged drug-dealer has been tarred and feathered during a paramilitary-style attack in a loyalist area of Belfast. During the third crusade to the Holy Land, King Richard ruled that any Royal Navy sailors caught stealing should be tarred and feathered. Tarring and feathering is a physical punishment, used to enforce unofficial justice. A youth tarred and feathered tied to a lamp post in the Falls Road area of Belfast. This woman was tarred and feathered for getting engaged to a soldier (Picture courtesy of Belfast Telegraph) A young woman stands, head bowed, tied to a lamppost. Perhaps the most famous example of an individual falling victim to a tarring and feathering. It was used in feudal Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, as well as the early American frontier, mostly as a type of mob vengeance (compare Lynch law ). Other victims of the punishment include drunken nuns … Today the act is … Their "crime" was going out with British soldiers. A 16-year-old Northern Ireland girl yesterday recounted a terrifying experience, apparently at the hands of the IRA, in which up to five men punched her, hacked off her hair and poured paint over her.

Mar 21, 2014 - Woman tarred and feathered in Londonderry. During the third crusade to the Holy Land, King Richard ruled that any Royal Navy sailors caught stealing should be tarred and feathered. The process of tarring and feathering can be traced right back through history, as an often unofficial means of punishment or revenge, designed to shame the victim. And in 1623, the Bishop of Halberstadt in Germany used the technique to discipline a group of misbehaving nuns.