This eochaır/key replaces a plough-in-the-stars on the OIRA ex-prisoners support centre on the Falls Road at Clondara Terrace, seen in Official Republican Movement. The centre perhaps takes its name from the newspaper from the 1970s that was composed of articles written by prisoners and smuggled out of Long Kesh. Here is issue #3, from September, 1973.
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The phrase “There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried” is attributed to Óscar Romero, a Catholic priest in El Salvador. He was a critic of the military government and was assasinated in March 1980 while saying mass. He was made a saint in 2015. (WP)
Sister Janet Mead had a surprise hit in 1973 with a pop-rock rendition of the Lord’s Prayer (youtube). Her name would be added to the mural – see the image from 2015 below.
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“Iarsmalann Na Staire Poblachtach Éireannach – Eileen Hickey Irish Republican History Museum” is across the street (behind the Conway Mill) from this mural. Eileen Hickey was a Provisional IRA member who served time in Armagh prison; she died in 2006, one year before the opening of the museum (obituary at An Phoblacht).
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This Conway Street mural, outside the mill and the republican museum, features banners of two Australian republican support-groups, with supporters holding banners reading “Australian Aid for Ireland QLD [Queensland] Branch [Fb] – The Spirit of Freedom” and “The Casement Support Group – Saoirse Melbourne”.
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“End British internment of Irish republicans 2013”. On Divis Street’s “international wall” (Visual History) for the 42nd anniversary of the introduction of internment and in reference to prisoners from anti-Agreement currently behind bars.
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“PSNI-MI5 = political policing” – a message from Gael Force Art (Fb) on Sliabh Dubh/Black Mountain (Visual History) above west Belfast.
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“Bogside” in the style of an illuminated manuscripts and Bobby Sands’s “[Our revenge will be] The laughter of our children” on a painted banner.
Meenan Square, Bogside, Derry
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“Human rights activist Pat Finucane 1949-1989 targeted by British establishment, executed by unionist death squads. “……If you don’t defend human rights lawyers who will defend human rights?-Rosemary Nelson”
This printed board replaces a similar painted board.
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“No blacks, no Irish, no dogs, no POWs – sponsored by SDLP/TUV [Traditional Unionist Voice]”. The reference of this board in Turf Lodge is a June motion in the NI Assembly to bar anyone convicted of a serious offence from serving as a ministerial adviser (the trigger case being Mary McArdle). Passage of the bill was secured with SDLP support of the motion.
Springfield Road, Belfast
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Fleadh Cheoıl Na hÉıreann is held in the north for the first time with the 62nd fleadh being held in Derry from August 11th to 18th (BBC). Free Derry Corner is decorated with the symbols of the festival and Comhaltas and the event’s web address. Programme.
Along the bottom can be faintly seen “Culture theft ££”.
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