“Easter Sunday commemoration march – assemble 2.00 PM Westland Street. Tírghrá [commemoration committee].” The same boards were used in 2011, but the start time was 2:30 (M06631).
The rear of Free Derry Corner has its own Visual History page.
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“End internment”. St Patrick is supposed to have driven all of the snakes out of Ireland, but the work is never done. The “snakes” in question are Theresa Villiers (minister for Northern Ireland in the current Conservative government) and David Ford, leader of the Alliance Party and minister for Justice in Stormont. The issue in question is (probably) the denial of compassionate parole for Marian Price (Oireachtas); “Prisons Crisis Group” published a pamphlet ‘Free Marian Price’ (Socialist Worker).
Free Derry Corner, Lecky Road, Derry. (Visual History)
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PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggott (here “Baggot”, with only one “T”) in January announced that he would retire from the force in September of this year (2014), after heading the organisation for five years (Guardian). He, and the PSNI generally, will not be missed in Bray Street (first three) and Rathlin Street (final four), Woodvale, west Belfast.
(Update: The date was moved up – Baggott quit at the end of June. BBC)
“PSNI stay out”, “PSNI no go zone”, “PSNI keep out!!!”, “Fuck the Pope”, “PSNI targets”, “KAT”
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“BRAG” is “Bogside Republican Action Group” and “BRY” is “Bogside Republican Youth”; the rest of the writing seems to be initials/signatures. See previously: BRY Petrol Bombers. (The petrol bomb was long ago a symbol of Ógra Shınn Féın (J2182).)
Lecky Road, Derry
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“Strong is what we make each other until we are strong together.” Women in struggle, (clockwise) banging binlids, undergoing strip searches, protesting internment, victims of plastic bullets (Julie Livingstone), fighting in Cumann Na mBan. On the right are the astrological symbol for woman and the republican symbol of “Saoırse” with the green star and fist.
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“RUC – PSNI. Name change – no change. No political policing. No special powers. No daily armed raids. No daily harassment. No PSNI in our schools. No MI5. No £10 touts. No interment [sic]. Republican Network.ie.” (The web address no longer functions but there is a Fb page.)
Lenadoon Avenue, Belfast
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Five small éirígí (web) pieces of graffiti and stenciling from Creeslough Park (at the corner with Lenadoon Avenue), Belfast. The stencils are of James Connolly (“We defy you! Do your worst!”) and the 3-in-1 figure combining police (“RUC-PSNI – different name, same aim”), Orange Order, and paramilitary.
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“In memory of óglach James Quigley, died 29th Sept. 1972 [and] óglach Patricia McKay, died 30th Sept. 1972. Killed on the streets where they were born by the British Army.” Quigley was shot while waiting to ambush a British Army patrol in Albert Street; McKay (of the OIRA) (and Ian Burt of the Royal Anglicans) was killed in Ross Street in a subsequent gun battle. (Lost Lives 614-616.)
There is a Quigley plaque in Whiterock.
Ross Road, Belfast.
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“The Workers Party National Commemoration Committee. Erected in memory of all those comrades who dedicated their lives for establishment of a democratic, secular, socialist, republic. ‘I have given whatever I had to give for the party, for the people of Ireland, and for a better world, but others have given more, much more. Comrades have given their lives.’ – Tomás Mac Gıolla TD. For the unity of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter.”
Servia Street, west Belfast
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32CSM placard on the railings around Free Derry Corner expressing solidarity with Palestine. On the right is “the petrol bomber” 13 year-old Paddy Coyle.
Lecky Road, Derry
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