Hand over fist: The Red Hand of Ulster still has the power to divide Northern Ireland

Hand over fist: The Red Hand of Ulster still has the power to divide Northern Ireland

They say that you are never more than 100ft from a Red Hand of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Over the course of one afternoon, I photographed more than 100 examples of this ancient Irish symbol – partly in an attempt at divination, and partly as an attempt to show how the red hand is suffering an image problem.