Belfast

A Postcard From The Edge

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“Having a wonderful time? How was your summer?” The nationalist community is locked in the dark while the Orange Order parades loudly on the streets of south Belfast. Postcards From The Edge was a successful 1990 Hollywood film starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine (WP). 

Replaces the RUC Ninjas.

Essex Street, south Belfast

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Tommy Crossan For Political Status

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“Support the prisoner candidate” – former PIRA volunteer and CIRA leader Tommy Crossan stood from Maghaberry Prison as a RSF candidate for West Belfast in 2001 (Éıre Nua) and urged voters to “spoil your vote” – see the posters on the wall; also Bennie et al p. 59).

In 2014 he would be killed after his expulsion from CIRA – see RIP Vol Tommy Crossan.

Divis Street, west Belfast

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Ban Plastic Bullets

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Repainted version of Ban Plastic Bullets. At 25 metres long, the mural presents to scale the distances at which the fourteen victims (seven adults, seven children) of plastic bullets were shot. CAIN has a list of the fourteen.

“We recommend the abolition of the use of plastic bullets – United Nations Committee Against Torture, 28 November, 1998”; “A new more lethal plastic bullet will be issued to the RUC on June 1st – It will be [??] deadly at a range of 30 metres – All plastic bullet fatalities have occurred at a range of less than 30 metres.”

Divis Street, Belfast

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The Castlerea Five

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“Merry Christmas & a happy new year to the Castlerea Five from the people of Belfast.” The Castlerea Five were five republican prisoners not released in 2000 (under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement) (An Phoblacht). They were jailed in Roscommon for involvement in the killing of Garda Jerry McCabe in 1996 (four of manslaughter, one of conspiracy to rob). Divis Street, Belfast

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