King Billy takes centre stage in the Orange arch in Armagh, flanked a variety of Orange symbols such as crossed keys, compass and set square, cross and crown, an anchor, and a coffin. “FCH” (reading from the bottom up, as the ladder would be ascended) stands for “Faith, hope, charity” – I Corinthians 13:13 is read during initiation.
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“In loving memory of Anthony John Hughes shot dead at this spot by British troops 9th April 1973, aged 19 years. RIP.” Sutton states that Hughes was shot while “moving arms from car outside house”. Behind Culdee Terrace, Armagh.
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A crowd of people look on as a funeral volley is fired over a Tricolour-draped coffin.
Navan Street/Culdee Terrace, Armagh
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“RIRA” graffiti below In These Ancient Lands.
Navan Street, Armagh
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“… and in these ancient lands/enchased and lettered as a tomb/and scored with prints of perished hands/and chronicled with dates of doom/I trace the lives such scenes enshrine/and their experience count as mine”. (Lines from Thomas Hardy’s On An Invitation To The United States.) Éıre takes the form of a woman, with two wolfhounds, between portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers.
Navan Street, Armagh
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This small hunger strike “H” memorial, with “SF” for “Sınn Féın” is in Navan Street, Armagh.
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Three generations of republicans, from the Troubles, the Rising, and the Rebellion, salute “F[rankie] Ryan, B[obby] Sands, J[ohn] Rooney, G[erard] Fennell, B[artholomew] Teeling”. The first four are modern IRA volunteers; the last is a United Irishman from Lisburn (Rebel Breeze has a full account of his deeds).
For an unspoiled view, see J0194.
Juniper Way, Twinbrook, Dunmurry
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“Remember the hunger strikers, 25th anniversary.” Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg, who died on hunger strikes in 1974 and 1976 and included in a line of portraits alongside nine of the deceased 1981 hunger strikers; Bobby Sands is shown in the large mural on the right hand side, next to blanket men Hugh Rooney and Freddie Toal.
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The police station in Cullaville Road, Crossmaglen gets a new sign. The watchtower on the station (such as appears in Demilitarise and other boards) would be taken down in 2007 (RTÉ).
Previously: the new PSNI emblem on the station in Strand Road, London-/Derry in 2004.
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Here are three nail-ups from Newry Road, Crossmaglen. The first shows hooded IRA volunteers in front of Starry Plough and Sunburst flags on pikes (symbol of the 1798 Rebellion). The second shows crossed pikes and crossed rifles. The third calls for British Army bases to be demilitarised.
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