“Iarsmalann na Staıre Poblachtach Éıreannach. Irish Republican History Museum. Conway Mill Complex. Tá fáılte roımh gach duıne.” with anti-Sınn Féın graffiti below.
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A Manchester Martyrs mural is returned to Divis Street’s “International Wall” after being replaced for a short time by Las Brigadas Internacionales. The new mural is somewhat similar to the original mural, with portraits of the “martyrs” – IRB members William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O’Brien – and a reproduction of a painting showing the IRB’s attack on the prison van which killed a guard (see the post on the original mural).
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2008 image of the Askatasuna mural (seen in 2007) on the “International Wall” on Divis Street, Belfast.
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“A leader is gone – the legend forever lives on! Codaıl samh a chomradaí.” Long-time IRA volunteer Martin Meehan, who went with the Provisionals in the split, spent 18 years in prison during the Troubles, and stood in various elections for Sınn Féın, died of a heart attack in November 2007. Divis Street, Belfast.
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This “Derry Four” is Gary Donnelly, Michael Gallagher, Martin O’Neill and Paddy McDaid, arrested on charges of RIRA membership (Irish Times). (The original “Derry Four” were arrested for the 1979 murder of Steven Kirby of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. (Update 2019-01.)) Sınn Féın were accused by Creggan residents with removing graffiti in support of the four (Derry Journal). The board underneath is ‘Free Seamus Doherty‘.
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These images are all from the area between the Bogside Inn and the Hunger Strikers memorial. The boards – ‘sniper at work’, ‘No RUC’, and Palestinian flag – are at the bottom of Westland Street.
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Plaque in Lisfannon Park to INLA volunteer ‘Red’ Micky Doherty. First seen in 2005.
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“I make milk. What’s your superpower?” “The Ultimate Superfood: healthier baby, healthier mum, all natural, ready-made, nutritionally perfect. Breastfeeding – invest in our future.”
Free Derry Corner, Bogside, Derry
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Three new murals are added to the walls of the Lecky Road underpass to brighten it up. Above, St Colmcille (St Columba) sails from Derry to Iona (Scotland), in order to start a monastery there; he founded a Derry monastery in 540. The smaller pieces show the emblem of (Glasgow) Celtic FC and a young mother in front of a (civil rights?) protest beside Free Derry Corner.
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“In proud memory of our fallen comrades UDA UFF UYM North Belfast Brigade. Though they are gone their memories live forever. Quis separabit.” This stone and plaque are in a memorial garden in Cosgrave Heights, Tiger’s Bay, north Belfast.
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