What is recorded here

Bombay Street, County Antrim, Ireland, is marked by a black plaque for Tom Williams "C. Coy" 2nd Battalion Belfast Brigade IRA, who lived there and was executed in Belfast Gaol 2nd Sept 1942 aged 19 years. The plaque, recorded by the National Graves Association, also carries the words Ar deis de go rab a anam. It is a small, sharp memorial: a young man, a street, a gaol, and a love that refused to forget him.

This black commemorative plaque records: In loving memory of Vol. Tom Williams "C. Coy" 2nd Battalion Belfast Brigade IRA who lived here and was executed in Belfast Gaol 2nd Sept 1942 aged 19 years. Ar deis de go rab a anam. Recorded plaque organisation: National Graves Association.

Tom Williams was a volunteer in the IRA's 2nd Battalion Belfast Brigade who was executed at Belfast Gaol in 1942 for his involvement in republican activities; he is remembered as a young martyr in Irish republican history.

A plaque record does not grant entry to a building or private land. View it from a public place unless permission is clearly given.