Voting for Sınn Féın is seen as the way to address the social issues named on placards carried by protestors – culture, houses, Brits Out, jobs – in order to bring about a new Ireland.
Beechmount/RPG Avenue, Beechmount, west Belfast
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Three images from Wapping Lane in the Fountain, London-/Derry, showing two Orange arches — one with the Londonderry coat of arms and Walker’s pillar, one from the William King Memorial Flute Band —and a UDA board with Orange marchers carrying the flag of the Order and a Union jack.
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Banner on a block of flats above the painted kerb-stones in Kennedy Place/The Fountain, Derry. With an Ulster banner to the left.
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The death by hanging of African National Congress supporter Benjamin Moloise on 18 October, 1985, for the alleged murder of a South African policeman, drew international condemnation and led to widespread rioting in Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth. (ExecutedToday | Jet) His words, “tell the world, freedom is at hand”, are paired with a phrase from Bobby Sands, “we aim to be free”, in this ANC-IRA mural featuring an armalite and a zulu shield and spear. In the second and third images the boards (above the mural) declaring west Belfast an “apartheid free zone”/”ceantar saor ó apartheıd” can be seen.
“Beır bua” [seize victory]; “erected by Sınn Féın April 1986”
Ascaıll Ard Na bhFeá/Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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Free Derry Corner in 1986, with a burning vehicle outside the Bogside Inn.
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Two similar graffiti from Central Drive, Creggan, Derry: “Ulster says No but … the man from Del Monte says Yes/the queen says Yes.” Also, “The last supper Newry”?
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Six of the hunger-strikers are named and their paramilitary associations given: B. Sands (PIRA), R. McCreesh (PIRA), J. McDonnell (PIRA), F. Hughes (PIRA), P. O’Hara (INLA), M. Hurson (PIRA).
Blucher Street, Derry.
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An unhappy pig wearing a police cap in Hawkin Street, Londonderry.
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Loyalist graffiti in Hawkin Street, Londonderry, celebrating the deaths on Bloody Sunday. (For the names of the dead, see the 1974 Bloody Sunday Memorial.) (For a similar republican ‘football score’ concerning RUC deaths, see Bass Irish Cup.)
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Lots of “INLA”s in Glenfada Park, Derry, with a starry plough in the background.
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