Tamery Pass (and Willowfield Walk) lies below Beersbridge Road between Woodstock and Castlereagh roads. This mural, at the lower entrance to the area, celebrates the area’s contribution to the Young Citizen Volunteers who fought in WWI. Willowfield Street, Belfast.
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Cloth-capped men from Lord Street head to work at local mills and across to Queen’s Island (originally Dargan’s Island) to work at Harland & Wolff shipyard, with Cave Hill (in north Belfast) looming behind.
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Streetreach is an annual programme in which churches work to improve local areas.
Pearl Street, Belfast
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At the centre of the hunger strikers iron-work on the site of the (former) Andersonstown RUC barracks is a lark in barbed wire; the barbed wire, however, contains the five demands: no prison uniform, no prison work, free association, visits and parcels, and full remission.
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The Andersonstown RUC barracks at the junction of the Glen and Falls roads was demolished in early 2005. Plans to develop the site with residential housing involving private company Carvill were opposed by locals, who launched the ‘Stop The Sell-Off’ campaign, aimed in particular at then-minister for Social Development (DSD) Margaret Ritchie of the SDLP. By October, Carvill had withdrawn their plans.
Brendan McNamee was shot by the PIRA after he defected to the INLA. Miriam Daly was shot by the UDA (or SAS). There is a plaque to the pair on the Andersonstown Road.
“Belfast IRSP. Brendan McNamee and Miriam Daly – murdered by British agents”; “DSD – Stop the spin”; “Public land for public use”; “Dear Santa, please get Minister [Margeret] Ritchie to give us back our land. Signed, West Belfast Residents”; “Justice for Harry [Holland] – No bail for his killers”; “Stop the sell-off campaign”; “Cuır deıreadh leis an díoladh”.
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Greengrocer Harry Holland was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver by teens in Norfolk Drive (just above the Milltown roundabout where this board is positioned) on September 12th, 2007. Stephen McKee, Patrick Crossan, and Niamh McKee (who was granted bail) would later be sentenced for murder, affray, and assault charges relating the crime. The Glen Road shop would remain open until 2018.
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“Suicide is no solution – reach out” to any of the four agencies whose numbers are given: Contact Youth, Samaritans, Corpus Christi, and Holy Trinity Counselling. “In memory of Michael, Stephen, Fiona.”
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2008 image of the three Ballymurphy IRA volunteers mural seen previously in 2005.
Whiterock Road, Belfast
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“Labhaır cıbé Gaeılge atá agat” (“speak whatever Irish you have”; “Is fearr Gaeılge bhrıste ná Béarla clıste” (“Broken Irish is better than clever English”; “Rally for Irish Language Act this Saturday June 9th @ Cultúrlann 1 pm”.
The mural in the background is No Plastic Bullets – see 1995 and 2004.
Whiterock Road, Belfast
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In the Ballymurphy memorial garden, Denis McCauley’s name has been added to the list of deceased ‘Civilians’ and Robert Murphy’s name to the ‘Roll Of Remembrance’. For images of the other panels, see the 2006 post on the garden.
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