The World - News from Aug. 20, 1989
About 10,000 demonstrators chanting “What do we want? Brits out!” marched through Dublin, capping a week of marches marking the 20th anniversary of British troops being sent into Northern Ireland. The protesters burned a Union Jack flag, laid a wreath outside the Irish Parliament and delivered a protest note to the British Embassy. The march was led by Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, the legal political wing of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. He was joined by British member of Parliament George Galloway and Father Patrick Ryan, wanted in Britain as a suspected IRA rebel.
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