Anti-collusion writing off the Falls Road in Andersonstown. Seen previously in 2003.
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Collusion Is State Murder
Author: Extramural Activity
Free The Castlerea Five!
The name of Michael O’Neill – one of the still-imprisoned Castlrea Five – is changed to “Michael Wings”. The reference is unknown; it is probably a local youth making his mark. Previously seen in 2003
Andersonstown Road, Belfast
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Brendan McNamee – Miriam Daly
Brendan McNamee was shot by the Officials in 1975; Miriam Daly was shot by loyalists in her Andersonstown home. “In death as in life they remain an inspiration to everyone who believes in Irish freedom. Erected by the Irish Republican Socialist Ex-Prisoners Memorial Committee.”
Andersonstown Road, west Belfast
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RUC Must Go Anoıs!
“RUC Must Go Anoıs [now]!” A vintage stencil (see another from 2001) in Owenvarragh Park/Páırc Abhaınn Bhearach, west Belfast
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Young People’s Rights
“The right not to be bullied, to be safe from war, to privacy, to play, to be happy.” Duncairn Parade, Belfast. For the title panel, with “to be loved, to family life, to freedom of expression, to life, to your own beliefs” (on the New Lodge Road) see The Right To Be Happy.
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A Web Of Double Agents
“Collusion – a web of double agents, death squads and deceit.” The legs of the spider are marked “PSNI/RUC”, “Special Branch”, “RHC”, “UFF”, “MI5/MI6”, “LVF”, “UDR/UDA”, “UVF”. The web is emanating from the door to 10 Downing Street in the top left.
Andersonstown Road, west Belfast
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Brian Robinson
“1st Batt B Coy Vol Brian Robinson killed in action 2nd Sept 1989. For his country and people he took up the gun a volunteer to the end and a true Ulster son robbed of his life’s blood in Sept 89 but the name Brian Robinson will live for all time.” Robinson was killed by an army undercover unit moments after he had shot and killed a Catholic named Patrick McKenna (WP). As the plaque notes, his mother died at the same time – she reportedly had a heart-attack when she heard of his death.
Disraeli Street, west Belfast
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Come Home 2 A Real Fire
A vintage republican graffito (e.g. Getty Images) against the RUC is resurrected for use in loyalist Woodvale. Both refer to the “Real Fire” ad campaign from the 80s (e.g. one | two). The Solid Fuel Advisory Service still (2018) uses the image of the dog, cat, and mouse side-by-side.
Disraeli Street, west Belfast
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Proactively Supporting Nationalist Ideology
These are two pieces of anti-police graffiti on Woodvale Road, Belfast. In the first, the force’s initials are changed from “Police Service of Northern Ireland”; the second reads “Fuck the PSNI” (and below, “Fuck the LVF”).
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Lt Col Trevor King
Trevor “Kingso” King served time for his part in the Battle At Springmartin in 1972, in which seven people, including a British soldier, died. In 1994, having been shot by the INLA and paralysed from the neck down, King took the decision to remove his own life-support (WP).
The words on the left are from Suicide In The Trenches by WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon:
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads pass by
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go
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2012 repaint [M08244] [M08245] [M08246] [M08247]
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