The war over the Falkland/Malvinas islands lasted ten weeks from April to June, 1982. Sympathies in the Bogside lay with the Argentinians. “Britan[n]ia rules the waves no more”, “Join Na Fıanna Eıreann now” and one other indecipherable slogan. Rossville Street, Derry
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Four scenes from the “conveyor belt” of the British police and judicial system, including (in the bottom left) a prisoner before a single judge in a Diplock court, around an image of Ireland with a union jack in the shape of a soldier with rifle aloft standing over Northern Ireland.
Central Drive, Creggan, Derry
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A phoenix rises from a pair of disembodied hands tearing apart an “H” made of brick, illustrating the lines “and then I prayed I yet might see/our fetters rent in twain/and Ireland long a province be/a nation once again”. Also with the lark in barbed wire, four provinces, and names of six hunger strikers: Bobby Sands MP, Francis Hughes, Ray McCreesh, Patsy O’Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson. Falls Road in Andersonstown, Belfast.
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M00223
An armalite on the corner of Falls Road library in Sevastopol Street, Belfast (and visible at the edge of 13 Gone But Not Forgotten) points at a saracen (or Humber Pig) parked on the pavement. “Provos” graffiti is on the abandoned houses on the Falls Road.
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M00221
A large celtic cross flies the Tricolour and Starry Plough. Beechmount Avenue, Belfast
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M00220
The four provinces are named in Irish/Gaelic — Uladh/Ulster, Laıghean/Leinster, Muman/Munster, Connacta/Connaght — around a (vandalised) image of an IRA (óglaıgh na hÉıreann) volunteer.
unknown street, (Beechmount?) Belfast.
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M00219 (see also X05727)
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The red star and the hammer-and-sickle make an appearance alongside the Tricolour, Starry Plough, a fist grasping barbed wire, and the names of four hunger-strikers: B. Sands, P. O’Hara, R. McCreesh, F. Hughes. Turf Lodge shops, Monagh Road/Monagh Gardens/Norglen Road, Belfast
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M00218
This mural features an unusual representation of Ireland divided into its four provinces. Also seen: Irish Tricolour and Sunburst flags sticking out of the island and the lark in barbed wire. Clonard Street, Belfast
See also: The Lark And The Freedom Fighter
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M00215
The Falls Road, Belfast, just below Dunlewey Street, is scarred from a burnt-out vehicle and on the walls of Adoration Convent: Support The Prisoners And Their 5 Demands.
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M00214
The quote on the left is from Sean O’Casey, not “Bobby Sands MP”: “You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.”
(The quote is reportedly from O’Casey’s prose lament for Thomas Ashe, either the initial pamphlet in November 1917 (?entitled “The Story Of Thomas Ashe”?) or the expanded version of 1918 (entitled “The Sacrifice Of Thomas Ashe” (auction site)), though no copy of this can be found on-line, only the two poems ‘Thomas Ashe’ and ‘Lament For Thomas Ashe’ (eastwallforall).
On the right, an H-Block blanketman is on his knees, protesting for (political) “status now”, surrounded by barbed wire and two flags on halberds: the Irish Tricolour and the Starry Plough.
Rockmore Road, west Belfast
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