1990 image of So I Always Looked The Other Way, previously seen in 1989.
Whiterock Road, Belfast.
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So I Always Looked The Other Way
Author: Extramural Activity
Bobby Sands
A smiling Bobby Sands on the side of the Sınn Féın offices on the Falls Road, (also the west Belfast office of An Phoblacht/Republican News), with his famous statement that “Everyone, republican or otherwise, has his [here: “his/her”] own [particular] part to play” [Diary, March 14th, 1981] (and the lark with its “spirit of freedom“).
This version was painted by Mo Chara in 1989, and an image of Sands has been on the wall continuously since then.
Sevastopol Street, west Belfast
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Free Ireland
Manacles “Made in Britain” constrain the republican desire for a united Ireland, contrary to the burning GPO and rising phoenix.
The close-up image shows the plaque to local (A Company 2nd Battalion) IRA volunteers: Stan Carberry, Frankie Dodds, Paul Fox, Sean Bailey, Paul Marlowe, Tony Campbell. Painted by Mo Chara Kelly in Beechmount Avenue.
“Fuaır sıad bás ar son na hÉıreann”, “Ireland unfree will never be at peace”.
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Cáısc 1916
“Easter 1916” with a second, obscured date (and perhaps, out of picture “honour Ireland’s dead – wear an Easter lily”.
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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United We Stand, Divided We Fall
The Siege and Relief of Derry are portrayed in two panels painted by J[?] Thompson, and the names of the thirteen Apprentice boys who closed the gates to the city are given in the middle: Campsie, Crookshanks, Morison, Steward, Irwin, Sherrard, Harvy, Cairns, Sherrard, Cunningham, Conninghman, Hunt, Spike. To the left and right are shields of brethren around the world: England, America, Australia, Quebec, and Eire (Éıre).
Sandy Row, south Belfast
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UVF Golf Brigade
Loyalist graffiti in Sandy Row, with picture of golf club and ball. The reference is unknown – please leave a comment or get in touch if you can add some context.
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Ulster Young Defenders
The Ulster Young Defenders (UYD) are a flute band from Sandy Row, formed in 1974.
City Walk/Linfield Avenue, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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LPA
A joint UVF/UFF/UDA mural in support of the Loyalist Prisoners Association. Ther is a small coil of barbed wire above the central flags.
For a similar joint sentiment, see Shankill Supports All The Loyalist Prisoners.
City Walk, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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In Glorious Memory
Mural to the memory of soldiers in the 36th (Ulster) Division and the Young Citizen Volunteers (whose emblem involves the shamrock and the words “In God our trust”) who died in World War 1.
City Walk (off Rowland Way), Sandy Row, south Belfast
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Boyne – Derry
Another celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Battle Of The Boyne in 1690 – shown on the left by King William III on his steed — preceded in 1688 by the relief of the “Londonderry under siege” – shown here by the coat of arms of the city and the slogan “No surrender”.
Sandy Row, south Belfast
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