“Shout with one voice – Vote Sinn Féin”. A small and colourful board in Lecky Road, Derry, with a fist of protest raised to the stars.
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Shout With One Voice
Area Affiliation
Doıre Cholmcılle
“The oak-grove of Colmcille” (or Columba) – the full name of Derry in Irish at the Butcher Street/Fahan Street gate, Derry.
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Stop Extradition
Two pieces of “Stop extradition” graffiti in Derry, one on the walls of the old city, the other in Windmill Terrace.
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75 Years Of Struggle
“Easter 1916-1991. 75 years of struggle. Join in the fight”.
Falls Road, Belfast
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King Michael Stone I
Michael Stone, who killed three mourners at the funerals of the Gibraltar 3 in Milltown Cemetery in 1988 (16th March) takes the place of King William III, riding his horse and pointing the way. “You’ve heard of King William III … Now meet King Michael Stone I”.
Kennedy Place, the Fountain, Londonderry.
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Mandela Father Of Freedom
Bobby Sands Saoirse
Memorial to Bobby Sands, with phoenix above (painted by Mo Chara Kelly) in Jasmine Way/Juniper Park, Twinbrook, next to Sands’s home. Two volunteers in reflective pose would later be added by local youths.
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Free Ireland
1991 image of the Free Ireland mural on Beechmount Avenue (RPG Avenue), Belfast, with two shots of the side wall. At the top, a stencilled board reads “Release Mark Prior, Liam Coogan, Jim McCabe, Kev Mulholland – these boys are innocent.” (The “Beechmount Five”. See Greenleft News) At the bottom, Pearse’s famous lines “The fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”
For a close-up of the IRA plaque, see 1990’s Free Ireland.
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Markievicz Unemployed Centre
Job-seekers office named after (former) local resident Constance Markievicz in Union Street, Sligo. Now the “Intreo” unemployment centre.
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Hunger Strikers
Portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers are combined in a gallery on Lecky Road, Derry, next to a call to march in the Celebration Of Resistance in Belfast on Sunday August 11th. If you recognize the artist, please get in touch.
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