“Cur stad le cıníochas” [“put an end to racism”] – This WARN (West Against Racism Network) mural puts anti-Irish sentiment (in London 1966 – “No blacks, no dogs, no Irish“) in parallel with racism against modern-day immigrants to Belfast.
International Wall, Divis Street, west Belfast
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Wolfe Tone is buried in Bodenstown graveyard, Co Kildare, and every year republicans make a pilgrimage there to commemorate his role in the United Irishmen’s 1798 Rebellion and the beginning of Irish nationalism. In 1972, the address was given by Máıre Drumm, vice-president of Sınn Féın, a position she held until she was assassinated in the Mater Hospital by the Red Hand Commando in October 1976.
“Ní síocháın gan saoırse … thinker and doer, dreamer of the immortal dram and doer of the immortal deed. We owe to this dead man more than we can ever repay him. To his teaching we owe it that there is such a thing as Irish nationalism. And to the memory of the deed he nerved his generation to do. To the memory of 1798 we owe it that there is any manhood left in Ireland …”
Divis Street, Belfast
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2005 image (with new black background) of the WBTA board on Divis Street, previously seen in 2003. Pickup is in Castle Junction/Gabhal An Chaısleaın.
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“In proud memory of our fallen comrades, Irish National Liberation Army” Danny Loughran, Rose Campbell, Matt McLarnon, Bonanza McCann, Nancy Tumelty, Gino Gallagher, Anthony Dornan. “If you strike us down we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom then our children will win it be a better deed.” “Erected by the Irish Republican Socialist Ex-Prisoners Memorial Committee.”
Christian Place, Belfast.
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Kieran Nugent was 18 when he went “on the blanket” in the H-Blocks (see The First Blanketman). He reportedly told his mother, “The only way I’ll wear a prison uniform is if they nail it to my back.”
Divis Street, west Belfast
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“Fáılte go dtí Bóthar na bhFál” [Welcome to Falls Road]. From left to right (images top to bottom): Balor, Fomorian enemy of the Tuatha and other mythological characters; Celtic FC (not shown); more heroes perhaps including Nuada; stag with harp player; swans/Children Of Lear; water sprite (not shown; see X00752); Janus/cross/dolmen/fáılte; and (facing the previous murals) swan with signatures (not shown); a dolmen.
In relation to the mythologyical imagery, see the Visual History page on Jim Fitzpatrick.
Ross Cottages, west Belfast
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“Make partition history”. Sınn Féın, celebrating its 100th anniversary, puts out a call for a march in Dublin.
Falls Road, west Belfast
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“Ceol gan teoraınn” – “unlimited music” or “music without boundaries”. Belfast’s Sean Maguire (also McGuire) (1927-2005) was an All-Ireland fiddle champion and world-wide ambassador for traditional music (WP).
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A ‘suicide strategy’ for “N of Ireland” languishes in the dustbin of 10 Downing Street, unlike strategies for Scotland, England, and Wales. The mural is produced by “Beechmount Community Youth Project”. To the right are messages to the recently deceased: “In one 2 week period 13 young men in north Belfast took their own lives”, “In one three month period 15 suicides in west Belfast occurred”.
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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Republican Sınn Féın split from Provisional Sınn Féın in 1986 over clause 1b of the party’s constitution which forbade Sınn Féın members from taking seats in the Dáil. It is now the political wing of the Continuity IRA.
Iveagh Parade, west Belfast
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