The counter for the 1981 hunger strike reaches 32.
William Street, Derry
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Victory To The 32 Day Hunger Strikers
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The Five Demands
A slightly different list from the one featured yesterday (in Until The Last Prisoner Is Free) “1. No prison uniform; 2. No prison work; 3. Free Association; 4. Education facilities; 5. Full remission”, “Smash H Block”.
Whiterock Road, west Belfast
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RUC Keep Out
“RUC keep out”, “Patsy O’Hara”, “IRA”, “Political status must stay” on flats in Glenfada Park, opposite the Rossville flats in Derry’s Bogside. Here is a guide to the row of murals along the bottom of Rossville flats. A close-up of the left-hand side of the image above is included below.
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Don’t Let Them Die!
The names of seven of the 1981 hunger-strikers – “POWs” Kieran Doherty, Joe McDonnell, Kevin Lynch, Martin Hurson, Tom McIlwee [McElwee], Paddy Quinn, Michael Devine – are placed next to outstretched arms wrapped in barbed wire.
The hands-in-barbed-wire design is by Jack Clafferty of Troops Out.
Beechmount Street, Belfast.
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For The Men And The Women
“Political status for the men in H.Block and the women in Armagh”, “Victory to the Provos” – graffiti in Beechwood Avenue, Derry.
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They Die, You Die
“They die, you die – Brit Govt”. Above are posters of hunger strikers, some marked with dates of death. From right to left, smaller posters show Sands, Hughes, McCreesh, and O’Hara. From left to right, the larger posters show [McDonnell out of frame?], Doherty, Lynch (both marked as deceased), McElwee, Quinn, Devine, McKeown, McGeown, Devlin.
If the posters are an accurate guide, the date is somewhere between August 2nd and 8th, the dates on which Doherty and McElwee died. Liam McCloskey would join the strike on August 3rd.
The dentist’s office round the corner from Ballymurphy shops, Belfast.
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Keep Brits Out Of Turf Lodge
“Keep RUC out”, “INLA”, “IRSP”, “IRA”, “UTP”. somewhere in Turf Lodge, Belfast
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13 Gone But Not Forgotten
“13 Gone [Bloody Sunday, January 1972] But Not For Gotten. We got 18 and Mountbatten” [Warrenpoint and Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, both on 27 August, 1979], “IRA”, “UTP” and an armalite
Falls Road Library, Sevastopol Street, Belfast
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Victory To The Blanketmen
Republican graffiti somewhere (in the Markets??), Belfast
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The Right Hon. Bobby Sands
“The Right Honourable Bobby Sands M.P. RIP” in front of a burning van in Islandbawn Street, west Belfast.
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