The Northern Ireland (Location of Victims' Remains) Bill passed in May 1999 provided an amnesty to help the identification and location of people who had disappeared during the 'Troubles'. These images show the six locations which were identified and became known as the 'Sites of The Disappeared', where the IRA buried eight people they murdered in the 1970s and early 1980s.

In thirty years of conflict and atrocities, this small group of people stood apart. All Catholic, they had not only been taken from their families, but also from their homeland to be buried in the South. In June 2000 the search was finally suspended. Three remains had been located, three closures permitted; for the remaining five families there was a site rather than a spot, a closing rather than a closure.

David Farrell's accompanying book Innocent Landscapes, is available from the Festival