“RIRA 2 – PSNI 0” [perhaps a reference to attacks on two officers in November, 2007], is over-written with “CIRA Scum” and “Join your local ONH [Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann, a RIRA offshoot] unit”. Iris Link, Twinbrook.
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“Michael Ferguson Sınn Féın MLA 25-10-53–25-9-06. Sean Keenan Sınn Féın 9-5-50–31-7-06. “It lights the dark of this prison cell/it thunders forth its might/it is the undauntable thought, my friend/the thought that says ‘I’m right'” – Bobby Sands”. Keenan was son of Derry republican Seán Keenan.
“Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann. Óglach Patricia Black 28-11-71–15-11-91. Óglach Frankie Ryan 23-9-66–15-11-91. Beırıgí bua.” The pair died near London when a bomb exploded prematurely.
On Pantridge Road, which runs into Michael Ferguson Roundabout at its eastern end. (See Teeling Family.)
Black and Ryan are also remembered by a plaque in nearby Woodside (M08902).
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“A Tribute to John Hume” by the Bogside Artists. Hume is in the company of other Nobel peace prize-winners: Martin Luther King, Jr (1964), Nelson Mandela (1993), (the Derry bridge,) and Mother Teresa (1979). Hume was awarded the prize jointly with David Trimble in 1988, and Mandela with F. W. de Clerk.
Rossville Street and the rear of Glenfada Park
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The large sign for The People’s Gallery (seen previously) moves across Rossville Street and is augmented with a panel showing the 12 murals in the series.
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Sınn Féın board off Bridge Street, Strabane, heading west.
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IRA in the colours of the Tricolour, on Bradley Way, Strabane, just north of Bridge Street.
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The players of Scottish soccer team Glasgow Celtic are shown ‘doing the huddle’ on the side of the Bowling Green pub in Main Street, Strabane (An Srath Bán). The red-and-white flag is the flag of county Derry.
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“I ndíl [ndıl] chu[ı]mhne – in proud memory of Vol. Ma[ı]réad Farrell, Vol. Dan McCann, Vol Sean Savage, GHQ staff Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann who were executed in Gibraltar on March 6th 1988.” Twentieth-anniversary portraits of the Gibraltar 3 in Meetinghouse Street, Strabane.
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Gravestones to brothers Michael, David, and Hugh Devine, to Charles Breslin, who died alongside Michael and David, to “all those who gave their lives” – “Go luí cré ársa Thír Eoghaın go héadrom ar uıgheanna ár laochraı uaısle” [May the ancient Tyrone clay lie lightly on the graves of our noble warriors]; this headstone is featured in a Fountain Street mural – and Danny McCauley – “Where there is a struggle for justice, the desire for freedom and resistance to exploitation, there will always be a Danny McCauley.”
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