“RUC beware: the IRA have had their “Weetabix””. Springhill Avenue, Belfast. An INLA version of the advertising campaign appeared in Ballycolman, Strabane.
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The IRA Have Had Their Weetabix
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Dessie Ellis Is Dying
“Stop extradition – Dessie Ellis is dying – Act now”. Nailors Row, Derry. See previously: Don’t Hand Him Over.
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Don’t Let Dessie Ellis Die
More Dessie Ellis “stop extradition” graffiti, this time from Central Drive, Derry. For some info, see Don’t Hand Him Over.
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Organised Opposistion
Fianna recruitment board in Central Drive, Derry: “Whilst Ireland or any of her is occupied or governed by a foreign body then the only attitude of Irish youth should be one of organized opposistion. Na Fianna Eireann – education disciplined revolutionary youth movement.” For a similar board in colour (also in Central Drive), see Educated Disciplined.
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Dessie Ellis Must Not Die
Anti-extradition graffiti in Waterloo Place, Derry. On the right-hand side are Young Socialist posters saying “No to war in the Gulf”.
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Isolate The Enemy
Republican graffiti in Glenalina Road, Belfast. Get in touch if you know if it has any specific reference.
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Use Arms When Arms Are Needed
Four in a row in Springhill Park, Strabane. (1) The ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers are shown on an H, but they have all had their eyes covered in blue paint. (2) You can kill the revolutionary but not the revolution (seen previously in Innisfree Gardens and also in 1981 in Rockdale St, Belfast and in Derry in 1981.) (3) Use arms when arms are needed. (4) A “West Tyrone command” roll of honour.
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Armed Resistance
Five in a row in Springhill Park, Strabane (with a badly damaged sixth out of shot to the left). Fıanna and óglaıgh in front of Sunburst and Tricolour flags; a kneeling volunteer with RPG launched “Armed resistance 1916-1987”; a lark ferrying a rifle; a raised fist; “unity is strength”.
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Support Dessie Ellis
“Support Dessie Ellis” and “Ask about Dessie Ellis – No extradition” graffiti in Westland Street, Derry, at the centre of the stencils seen in Dionysia.
For basic info on Ellis, see Don’t Hand Him Over.
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Vol. Joe Doherty
This 1990 image of the Vol. Joe Doherty mural on the New Lodge Road (by Mo Chara and “New Lodge Republican Youth”), Belfast includes the message on the side-wall comparing the revolution in Ireland to the revolution in the United States: “Would the US Att. General Edwin Meese have deported George Washington? Don’t handover Joe Doherty to British warlords!”
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