Painted signage at the north end of Berwick Road/Paráıd An Ardghleanna in Ardoyne/Ard Eoın: “P.S.N.I. not welcome in Ardoyne”.
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PSNI Not Welcome To Ardoyne
Area Affiliation
Our Friends And Comrades
The memorial gallery on the right-hand side of Ardilea Close has been expanded from three panels to five (compared to last year/2013) and the first new face is “Charlie Wilson – age 66”.
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UFF East Belfast Brigade
The UFF mural on the first gable of (so-called) Freedom Corner in east Belfast has been repainted many times since the first one took over – in 1991 – from a Gertrude Star mural (D00388). Repaints followed in roughly 2001, 2008, and 2011, now followed by the image shown above. The elements remain as before: a balaclava’d volunteer with assault rifle, the UFF emblem, a pistol, and a modified version of the Declaration of Arbroath: “For as long as one hundred of us remain alive we shall never in anyway consent to submit to the Irish [instead of “English”] for it’s not for glory, honour or riches we fight but for freedom alone which no man loses but with his life – U.D.A./U.F.F”
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Easter Sunday Commemoration March
“Easter Sunday commemoration march. Assemble 2.00 pm Westland Street. Tírghrá.” The sign is the same as in 2013 (M09214), which was a modified version of the 2011 board (M06631).
“Tírghrá” [patriotism] is perhaps a reference to the list (and profiles) of IRA dead.
At the rear of Free Derry Corner (Visual History).
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M10891
1ú Caṫlán Oırṫear Tıreoın Óglaıġ Na hÉıreann
1ú Caṫlán Oırṫear Tıreoın Óglaıġ Na hÉıreann [more typically “Tír Eoghaın”; 1st battalion east Tyrone IRA]
“Beannaımıs spıorad do-ċlaoıte na laoċra atá ına luı ıns na huıgheanna seo.” [We bless the indomitable spirit of the heroes who are buried in these graves.] “do-ċlaoıte” appears to be a Connacht form of “do-ċloíte”, meaning “indomitable”, “indefatigable” (Focaıl Fholaıthe).
The volunteers named on the various stones are Patrick Kelly, Patrick Vincent, Kevin Murray, Patrick Quinn, Patrick Carty, Seán Loughan, Patrick McDonald.
Kelly was killed in the Loughgall ambush – see the Loch gCál/Loughgall tribute mural in west Belfast (also a smaller mural in north Belfast).
Vincent was the driver of the lorry in the Clonoe Ambush.
Murray and McDonald were “killed in action” in 1974 (Fb).
Quinn was “killed in action” in 1973, along with Daniel McAnallen (Fb).
Loughan and Carty were “killed in action”, along with Dermot Crowley, in June 1973 (An Phoblacht).
The flat stone with the phoenix reads: “Romantic Ireland never dies!/O’Leary lies in fertile ground./And songs and spears throughout the years/Rise up where patriot graves are found.”
St Malachy’s churchyard, Coalisland Road, Edendork.
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IRA
A faded “IRA” board hangs on in the Main Street of Coalisland (at the back of the Canal End bar), perhaps of the same vintage as this PIRA gunman and these PIRA rifles.
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Up Your Haass
Political commentary on the Cupar Way “peace” line (near Lanark Way): “Stick Haass up your ass” — a reference to the negotiations which were taking place around Christmas and New Year’s, led by Richard Haass, into the “legacy issues” of flags and emblems (including murals) and parades. No agreement was reached. (BBC | pdf | BBC)
December update: the Stormont House Agreement covered many of the same areas (WP).
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The Prison Of Misdeeds
This piece of aspirational graffiti is on the Cupar Way “peace” line. “Free us all .. from the prison .. of mistrust .. misunderstanding .. and misdeeds.” It goes back to the the very first wild-style writing jam on the wall, in April 2009.
See also: Fuck You And Your Patronising Slogans.
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M10869
Let Go Of The Past
“… fight for a better future. It is your choice.” On the darker left-hand side of the board are rioters throwing Molotov cocktails at RUC/PSNI vehicles and the very “peace” wall upon which this board is mounted; on the more colourful right-hand side of the board houses are being built, a student is graduating, children are happy, and workers are taking sledge-hammers to the wall.
With sponsorship from PCSP (Policing & Community Safety Partnership) (web) and Alternatives (web).
Painted by Daniela Balmaverde (web). Cupar Way, west Belfast.
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The Shankill And The Titanic
These are two painted metal-worked pieces bolted to the “peace” line on Cupar Way, celebrating “Shankill Ingenuity” and “Identity, Heritage”, while commemorating the lives lost on Titanic.
“1140” p.m. local time, April 14th, 1912, was when the ship hit an iceberg and began sinking. At about 2:20 a.m., in the early hours of the 15th, it went under.
See also: Belfast Inventiveness and Industrial Legacy.
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