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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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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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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Lots of “INLA”s in Glenfada Park, Derry, with a starry plough in the background.
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This is a black-and-white, English-language, version of a ‘roll of honour’, with names in Celtic script, mural that would quickly be redone (see I gCuimhne Agus In Onóir). The graffiti underneath read Maggie Lured Hurd To Be A Turd. There is also graffiti on the low wall: “All the queens horses and [all the queens men] couldn’t catch the IRA in [London again]”. Kells Walk/Rossville Street, Derry
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A roll of honour in Albert Street, Belfast, commemorating volunteers of the IRA’s D company, 2nd battalion, who died from 1971 to 1979: Hughes, Quigley, McAreevy, Maguire, Donaghy, McKinney, O’Rawe, Marley, Campbell, Skillen, Kelly, Carson
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Here are a number of loyalist graffiti from Londonderry, with slogans such as “UVF”, “UDA”, “UFF”, “Taigs out” and “NF” (National Front) with swastika, as well as “Londonderry Not Derry” (in response to the various ‘Derry not Londonderry’ pieces in republican areas (see Derry Not Londonderry, It’s Derry Not Londonderry, Do You Live In Londonderry?, Stoop Down Low Party, and Vote SDLP For A Better Londonderry), and “For God and Ulster MYM” (“MYM” = “? Young Militants”?). The fourth image (which is from London Street) shows a contested wall, sporting both loyalist and republican (“Provos rule Derry/Doire”) phrases. There is also “FZTR” – Fountain Zulu Tartan rules.
London Street, Kennedy Place, Hawkin Street, Londonderry
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William Street, Derry, gets an Irish-language sign.
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