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The RIC Murder Gang

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One RIC member was killed and another wounded outside the Beehive Bar in a shoot-out with IRA men in September 1920. In reprisal, County Inspector Harrison and his men killed Vol. Ned Trodden, Vol. Sean Gaynor, and Sean McFadden (Rısteard Ó Murchú). The gang, under Detective Inspector Nixon, would go on to kill more Catholics in 1921 and in 1922 commit the McMahon killings and the Arnon Street killings, in each of which 6 people died.

Northumberland Street, west Belfast

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Life In Beechmount

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Scenes from years gone by in the Beechmount area: Patsy Crawford gas lamp lighter, St Mary’s PS, Jack Garland featherweight champion Ireland, a building in Cavendish St (at Harrogate St), St Paul’s, the Beehive, Broadway cinema, Kennedy’s bakery, Meleady’s, Broadway church, St Dominic’s girls, Mr Smyth shoemaker.

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Beechmount Óglaıgh

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The memorial garden in Beechmount Avenue, Belfast, goes beyond commemoration of IRA volunteers. Moving clockwise: dying volunteer, “local men and women and POWs”, hunger strikers, comhaltaí Shınn Féın, proclamation, na hÓglaıgh, “innocent people from the area”, “the unsung heroes off [sic] this area”, Sands quote.

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Taxi Trax

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The WBTA mural (on the International Wall (Visual History) is quickly repainted, with the central mural of the Easter Rising replaced with a gable-end version of a small (1981) mural in Rockdale St (long gone by 2008; in fact, none of the three murals depicted is extant in 2008 and none existed in the form shown).

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End Internment By Remand

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Internment without trial was a highly controversial ‘Special Power’ enacted in 1971. This 2008 graffiti alleges that the practice still continues under the guise of indefinite remand. The practice was used against RIRA and CIRA members. See, for example, this 2008 RTÉ report and the later case of Luke O’Neill who was granted bail after (only) 17 months.

Lecky Road, Derry

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