The Sinn Féin offices in Turf Lodge are named “Constance Markievicz House” after the artist, suffragette, republican revolutionary, first woman elected to the British parliament, anti-Treaty fighter, and hunger striker.
The subject for the fifth mural by The Bogside Artists is Annette McGavigan, the first child to be killed by British forces in the Troubles, in 1971. The mural (see M01421) would be launched in September.
The Battle of the Bogside took place in August 1996. The board above (on the rear of Free Derry Corner) commemorates its 30th anniversary. Rossville flats are shown on the left of the image. Lecky Road, Derry
Day 371 of the “siege” of the residents of Garvaghy Road, Portadown. The siege began when the newly-formed Parades Commission decided to ban the Orange march in 1998 and 2,000 police and soldiers enforced the ruling by barricading the road off. Rossville Street, Derry, with Free Derry Corner and The Petrol Bomber in the background.
Londoner Stephen Lawrence was murdered by stabbing in 1993 and, although arrests were made, no charges were brought. A 1998 public inquiry found that the Metropolitan Police Service was “institutionally racist”. In 2012, two of the original suspects were found guilty of the murder (WP). Catholic Robert Hamill was beaten to death by loyalists in Portadown in 1997 while police in an RUC land-rover looked on (WP). The second image is of a fist smashing a swastika: “Stand firm – break the bigots [sic] back” on top of a Drumcree stand-off mural (which will become visible again in later years).