Peter Mandelson served as NI Secretary from October 1999 (replacing Mo Mowlam) to January 2001. As such, he oversaw the creation of the Assembly and of the PSNI. His departure (on 2001-01-24) is greeted with celebration and song – “Slán Abhaıle”.
Divis Street, Belfast
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“Merry Christmas & a happy new year to the Castlerea Five from the people of Belfast.” The Castlerea Five were five republican prisoners not released in 2000 (under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement) (An Phoblacht). They were jailed in Roscommon for involvement in the killing of Garda Jerry McCabe in 1996 (four of manslaughter, one of conspiracy to rob). Divis Street, Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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The “old model” RUC is a combination of policeman, Orangeman, and (loyalist) paramilitary, affiliations the “new model” lacks.
Divis Street, Belfast
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The Ógra Shınn Féın (Sınn Féın Youth) logo is a Molotov cocktail with an Easter lily as a fuse. Divis Street, Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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In 1690, William III defeated James II at the Battle Of The Boyne, securing Ireland for England. And in legend, Ulster was won in a race by an O’Neill tossing his severed hand ahead of his competitor. Similar battle is needed to preserve Northern Ireland, the mural suggests. “Quis separabit” is the motto of the UDA, and “Terrae filius” (“Son of the land”) is the motto of the Ulster Young Militants, its youth branch. Lord Street, Belfast.
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Iron Maiden’s Eddie The Trooper becomes a South East Antrim UDA/UFF gunman, striding over the graves of “G. Adams”, “A. Maskey”, and “McGuinness”.
For more information on Eddie and a full list of Eddie murals, see Eddie’s Visual History page.
Castlemara Drive, Carrickfergus
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The mural shows people being hanged, speared, and drawn behind a horse, and houses in flames.” The persecution of the Protestant people by the church of Rome, 1600 – the ethnic cleansing still goes on today.”
Hopewell Crescent, lower Shankill, Belfast.
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Copyright © 2000 Peter Moloney
Six INLA volunteers are remembered on a memorial stone in the City Cemetery, Derry. The other memorial is to the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers (“They were ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances whose steadfast resolve, discipline, and unity of purpose prevailed”) and five local “comrades and friends”.
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The sixth mural from the Bogside Artists commemorates the 1980 hunger strikes, first in Long Kesh and subsequently in Armagh Women’s Prison. The main figure is Raymond McCartney; the female figure is perhaps Mary Doyle (the other two female strikers were Maıréad Farrell and Maıréad Nugent). The info board is from 2007. Rossville Street, Derry.
“This mural is dedicated to the H Block/Armagh prison struggle and in memory of [the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers]. Ní neart go cur le chéıle.”
The paint-bombed version is from May, 2013, but the mural would not be replaced until 2015.
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Completed version of the Annette McGavigan mural in Rossville Street, Derry.
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