The dove of peace holds the keys to freedom from Long Kesh.
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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Beechmount POWs
Area Affiliation
Ireland – Catalonia
“Not Spain, not France. Free Catalonia. Since 1714 the Catalan nation is military [sic] occupied for the Spanish and French states. Catalonia has their own culture, language, and history. Our country have [sic] more than 1000 years of history as a nation. The Catalan flag is the first European flag. Our fight flag is the “Estelada”. The white star means the freedom, and the blue triangle stands for the sky of humanity. Free Catalonia! United Ireland! El nostre dia arribarà! Tıócfaıdh [sic] ár lá. 11/8/97″
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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No Plastic Bullets
1997 image of ‘No Plastic Bullets‘ (1995) on the Whiterock Road, Belfast.
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Ireland’s Holocaust
Here’s an updated (but still unfinished version) of 1995’s Ireland’s Holocaust, with images from issues of Illustrated London News of the period (also used in An tOcras Mór on New Lodge Road).
Whiterock Road, west Belfast
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Éıre Nua Flute Band
Éıre Nua Republican Flute Band (Fb) celebrates its fifteen anniversary with traditional republican symbols – the four provinces, celtic knotwork, and the flags of Ireland and socialism. Whiterock Road, Belfast.
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Timeline
Here are two parts (of what were at least three) of a long mural in Henry Street. Shown here are rioting outside McGurk’s Bar (see Campaign For Truth) and belongings being moved from a burning home.
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Saoırse
1997 version of a 1995 mural: Long Kesh through the keyhole.
Donore Court, north Belfast
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Timeless Time
“Until we give back to the black man just a bit of the land that was his and give it back without provisos, without strings to snatch it back, without anything but complete generosity of spirit in concession for the evil we have done to him – until we do that, we shall remain what we have always been so far: a people without integrity, not a nation, but a community of thieves.” The words of [Australian writer] Xavier Herbert, 1978, over an aboriginal flag in which black represents the people, yellow the sun, and red the earth. Here is a timeline of the fight for indigenous rights in Australia.
An unknown (please get in touch) piece of aboriginal art forms the main panel.
Ludlow Square, New Lodge, north Belfast
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William Steel Dickson
The third of three figures from the Society of United Irishmen to be featured in the New Lodge is William Steel Dickson. He was adjutant-general of the County Down Irishmen (see the blue plaque in Portaferry M08948) and was arrested a few days before the insurrection (WP). Like Henry Joy and Mary Ann McCracken and William Drennan, he is buried in Clifton Street Cemetery. New Lodge Road, Belfast.
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Free The POWs
A collage of image from the previous 30 years, including banging bin-lids on the ground, Maıréad Farrell in Armagh prison, men on the blanket, the cages of Long Kesh, marches in support of the hunger strikers, and reproductions of various posters, against Margaret Thatcher, plastic bullets, internment, and censorship. There’s a quote from Bob Dylan in the middle, “How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see – the answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind.”
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Peter Moloney Collection 