“Ceol gan teoraınn” – “unlimited music” or “music without boundaries”. Belfast’s Sean Maguire (also McGuire) (1927-2005) was an All-Ireland fiddle champion and world-wide ambassador for traditional music (WP).
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A ‘suicide strategy’ for “N of Ireland” languishes in the dustbin of 10 Downing Street, unlike strategies for Scotland, England, and Wales. The mural is produced by “Beechmount Community Youth Project”. To the right are messages to the recently deceased: “In one 2 week period 13 young men in north Belfast took their own lives”, “In one three month period 15 suicides in west Belfast occurred”.
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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Additional plaques (along the side wall) have been added to the Lower Falls Memorial Garden (Falls Road, Belfast) – the first is of D Company members up to 1969, the second is of volunteers from the 1970s, the third is to civilians.
The final two images are close-ups of the main monument, seen previously (from a distance) in 2001.
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Republican Sınn Féın split from Provisional Sınn Féın in 1986 over clause 1b of the party’s constitution which forbade Sınn Féın members from taking seats in the Dáil. It is now the political wing of the Continuity IRA.
Iveagh Parade, west Belfast
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A plaque and info board are added alongside the updated Nora McCabe/plastic bullet mural in Islandbawn Street, Belfast: “This mural is dedicated to Norah McCabe and all the victims murdered by rubber & plastic bullets used by the RUC & British Army. Sponsored by the Troops Out Movement & was unveiled on behalf of Relatives For Justice by Mary Pearson 11/09/05.” “Tá an múr-ealaın seo tíomnaıthe do Norah McCabe agus do no hıobartaıgh uılıg maraıthe agus gortıathe le pıléır rubaır agus plaısteacha ag an RUC agus ag Arm na Breataıne. Tá an múr-ealaın seo urraıthe ag Troops Out Movement agus nochtadh é thar cheann Relatives For Justice ag Mary Pearson ar 11/09/05.”
(2001 with original plaque | 2003 without original plaque)
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Seán Kelly, one of the bombers of Frizzell’s fish shop in 1993, was released under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement but returned to jail in June 2005 by NI Secretary Peter Hain. He would be released a month later.
Falls Road, west Belfast
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“I ndıl cuımhne [chuımhne] ar Neil McCrory a fuaır bás an trıú lá de Shámhaın 1976 ı laımhe dılseoırí [at the hands of loyalists]. Dedicated to the memory of Fıan Neil McCrory murdered 3rd November 1976. Scouts of Na Fıanna a band o’er the nation/May every home greet you with joy and delight/May God give you strength for to love him and Ireland/And when the day comes gives you courage to fight.”
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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Another Seán Kelly board, this one in Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast, with Continuity IRA graffiti below.
There is a Visual History page of this wall, as it is the most frequently muraled wall in Belfast.
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“Interned 05.” Seán Kelly, one of the bombers of Frizzell’s fish shop in 1993, was released under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement but returned to jail in June 2005 by NI Secretary Peter Hain. He would be released a month later.
Beechview Park, west Belfast
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IRA volunteer Kieran (here Cıarán) Nugent spent nine months in Long Kesh as a Special Category prisoner in 1975. When he was arrested again in 1976 and sent to the H Blocks, the status no longer existed and he could no longer wear his own clothes. He refused to wear a prison uniform and spent his first night naked. On the next day he was given a blanket and so became the first blanket man.
Rockville Street, west Belfast
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