“Internment! Speak out! Maghaberry, Portlaoise, Hydebank. Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association [web]”. This painted board is on the roundabout at the top of Eastway, Derry
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In this modified ‘School’ safety sign in the Lower Shankill estate, a mother and child with Orange Order collarettes go to school (under the watchful eye of the trio of UFF, UYM, and UDA boards seen in Loyalist Lower Shankill.)
(In 2000, a board reading “Drumcree” was placed over “School”. See J0585)
Hopewell Crescent, next to Hope nursery.
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The dilapidated Rebel’s Rest is being used as a notice-board, first by Sınn Féın and their campaign to extend voting in the Irish Presidential election to the north – “Vótaí do gach saoránach Éireannach”, “Paul Maskey supports #pres4all – Uachtarán do chách/President for all” – and secondly by the IRPWA (web) and their campaign to “End British internment! End Maghaberry torture”.
Falls Road, west Belfast
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“#PrayForGaza” graffiti in Bishop Street, Derry
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Here is a close-up of the the middle of the Hunger Strike board above the Clowney Street phoenix (which is the Oldest Mural in Belfast) seen previously in 2013.
For an image of the writing – “Bobby Sands murdered 1.17 am. 5th May 1981. ‘My position is in total contrast to that of an ordinary prisoner: I am a political prisoner.”” – see the Homer Sykes collection. The quotation is from Sands’s ‘The Lark And The Freedom Fighter’ (pdf).
For “Thirty thousand can’t be wrong” see this episode of Thames TV’s ‘TV Eye’ (youtube).
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Sınn Féın representatives Paul Maskey (above), Gerry Adams, Alex Maskey, and Martin McGuinness are photoshopped into these coffee-themed, Irish-language puns outside the ‘Falls Rolls’ bakery: Ár tae will come, Tıocfaıgh [sic] ár látte, Al cappuchino, and Mocha-ra.
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A week before he was assassinated and his government overthrown, Burkina Faso president Thomas Sankara asserted: “While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.” Sankara gained power of Burkina Faso (then Upper Volta) in a 1983 coup and launched an ambitious programme of literacy, feminism, public health, and agricultural self-sufficiency, in addition to launching a drive against corruption and of nationalizing natural resources. He attempted this all without the assistance of foreign aid or the IMF or World Bank. However, he wielded power outside the jurisdiction of the courts and controlled the press. He and twelve colleagues were killed in October 1987.
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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INLA hunger-striker Kevin Lynch has been returned (see 2006) to the gable wall he previously adorned after making way for Marian Price, Political Hostage from 2012 to 2014.
Whiterock Road, west Belfast
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“End the torture in Maghaberry Gaol – Smash Stormont – www.irpwa.com – Irish Republican Prisoners’ Welfare Association – strip searching – isolation – controlled movement.”
IRPWA board on the rear of Free Derry Corner.
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For a second year, Free Derry Corner is painted yellow as part of “Paul’s Campaign” for “Sarcoma awareness” – named after Paul Coyle who died of the disease at age 26 in 2011.
In the bottom left is a short poem: “Wear the colour yellow/Wear it proudly on your breast/Brightly show the bystanders/Our campaign it will not rest//Our fight is to highlight a disease/So harmful and so vile/To ignore it is to encourage it/To rid our face of smiles//So brightly wear that yellow/Don’t turn your face away/Raise awareness of sarcoma/Consign it to yesterday!”
Free Derry Corner has its own Visual History page.
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Peter Moloney Collection 