Cogús [conscience] is the POW-support organisation of the RNU (tw). On the left is a blanketman, on the right is a contemporary POW being beaten by a prison guard in riot gear. “Make a difference – Join RNU – Be committed, stand as one – Implement 12th August Agreement – End strip searches – End controlled movement.”
Berwick Road, Ard Eoın
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“They think that they have pacified Ireland, they think they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half … [They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything;] but the fools, the fools, the fools! …. [they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace]” The closing words of Patrick Pearse’s oration at the Dublin graveside of Jeremiah O’Donavan Rossa in 1915. His remains had been repatriated from the United States to Ireland.
Brompton Park, Belfast
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“In memory of our friends and comrades. This Memorial is dedicated to all those Irish Republicans who fought in the Struggle for Irish Freedom, and in the defence of this community in our Time of Need. This Memorial honours their Courage and Dedication to the cause of Irish Freedom. Ar dheıs Dé go raıbh a n-anam.” Hugo Wilkinson, Terry Murphy, Paul Watson, Jim McLaughlin, Richard McIlkenny, Jake McGowan, Patsy Quinn, Liam Mulholland, Francis O’Neill, Sean Delaney, Carmel Cahoon, Christine Beattie, Geraldine Rice, Anthony McIlkenny, Joey Saunders, Danny Mullan, Tony Molloy, Seamus Rice, Eamon McAllister, Gerry McAllister, John Bateson, John Barnes, Jim Floyd. With images of the prisons Armagh, Long Kesh H-Blocks, Magilligan, Long Kesh cages, HMS Maidstone, Portlaoise, Wormwood Scubs, Crumlin Road.
“We would like to thank all our friends from Wexford, Limerick & Fermanagh who kindly donated to this memorial. Go raıbh maıth agaıbh.”
Ardilea Close, Belfast
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“… vote for Sınn Féın.” This vintage board in Juniper Park, Belfast/Dunmurry, goes back to at least 1998 (compare D00788 around the corner in Juniper Rise).
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“Remember the tragic events surrounding the unlawful execution of IRA volunteers [Vols. Sean Savage, Maıréad Farrell, Dan McCann] in Gibraltar by the SAS on the 6th March 1988, the shooting of Vol. Keven McCracken in the defence of the community, the murderous attack on the Gibraltar funeral by a British sponsored assassin and killing of mourners [John Murray, Thomas McErlean, Vol. Caoımhín Mac Brádaıgh]. I ndíl [sic] chuımhne. Always remembered with pride by the people of the Colin area. Béırıgí [sic] bua.”
Twinbrook Road, Dunmurry
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100 years after the Ulster Volunteers were formed in 1912 the modern UVF of 1965 is “armed and ready”.
Blenheim Drive, Newtownards
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There are four loyalist paintings on the street surface in Portavogie, beginning with the crest of the Red Hand Defenders flute band (Fb) “Formed in 1979” and the Portavogie Young Volunteers.
Harbour Road and Main Road, Portavogie
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The ‘Peace’ mural in ‘The People’s Gallery’ (Visual History page) by the Bogside Artists is repainted – see last year’s worn version. The mural was originally painted in 2004.
Rossville Street, Derry
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A background has been added to the Derry Brigade (IRA) board on Lecky Road (seen in 2012), with Cú Chulaınn, an oak leaf with crossed rifles, and a lily.
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Sınn Féın leader Gerry Adams said of the (Provisional) IRA in 1995 “They haven’t gone away, you know” (youtube). The phrase is used here (“hav’nt”) by post- and anti-Agreement IRA.
The second image shows a BRY board with a traditional spring-time republican message: “Honour Ireland’s patriot dead – wear an Easter lily.”
Both boards are in Iniscarn Crescent outside the City Cemetery, which is shown in the third image bedecked in Tricolours and Starry Ploughs.
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