The Free Ireland mural (and IRA plaque) on Beechmount Avenue provides a backdrop for a parade.
Seen in 1990 and 1991 and later repainted.
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Nationalist Rights March
Nationalists carry a Tricolour in front of Belfast City Hall, campaigning for rights.
Dunville Street, west Belfast
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Coıllte Bhéal Feırste
In 1992, the Forest Of Belfast project was started, a public-private to preserve old trees and encourage tree-planting. Above is one of the murals painted to publicise the effort. (Another was – and remains to this day (2017) – on Hillman Street/Antrim Road.)
Shiels Street, west Belfast.
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On The Blanket
Here is a very faded 1993 version of 1985’s On The Blanket, in Fahan Street, Derry. A blanket man stands in front of an “H”; on the right are a pair of hands in barbed wire.
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Foreign Funds
On the left are pike-men from 1798 and in front is a crowd of people carrying torches. Their common enemy(?) is a wad of ten pound notes, apparently from the European Social Fund, American Fund For Ireland and the Ireland Fund.
Lecky Road, Derry, on the rear of Free Derry Corner (Visual History)
Get in touch if you know what the issue is and what the event from 12-18 December 1992 was.
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Watchtower Rainbow
Children protest against a watchtower on the walls of Derry – the view opposite this spot on Lecky Road, Derry – which is wrapped in a rainbow of colours.
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Power Supply
Power flows from Britain to the RUC to the UDA to keep the nationalist community under surveillance.
Lecky Road, Derry
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Doıre – Managua
Muralists came from Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua, to contribute to this mural of Irish and Nicaraguan culture both ancient (standing stones, oxen pulling carts, outdoor dancing) and modern (rock music, Guinness, Mario) in Magazine Street, Derry.
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The People’s Voice
“Vote Sınn Féın – the people’s voice”.
Small board in Lecky Road, Derry
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Give Them That Screamin’ Feeling!
Voting for Sınn Féın will give unionists the sense of dread depicted in Edvard Munch’s The Scream.
Kells Walk, Derry
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