A Christmas reminder about republicans in jail: “Saoırse – Release the POWs”. For the same candle in barbed wire and chained-up forearms, see Sınn Féın Action Monitor.
Market Street, Belfast
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“Here is a final image from lower Ormeau about Orange Order flute band marches through the area in the summer of 1997.
Cooke Street, south Belfast
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This mural was never finished, so it’s not entirely clear what it was meant to represent. It shows two and a half RUC officers in riot gear, leaping like ninjas, presumably over the wishes of lower Ormeau residents.
Essex St/Sraid Conchúr Mhic Neasa, Belfast.
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Both male and female prisoners of war are represented in this mural: by the male and female faces — the male above the silhouette of Long Kesh, the female behind bars (presumably of Armagh prison) – and by the (formerly astrological) symbols for male (Mars) and female (Venus). “Saoırse” (“freedom”). The mural is signed (top left): “G[erard Mo Chara] Kelly 95 [© SF??]”.
Kinallen Court, Belfast
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The “approved Orange route” – approved by the “SS” RUC and the Parades Commission Chairman, is right over Catholics. The march was cancelled on July 11th after opposition to marches in many places, including the Drumcree march of July 6th. “June 20” (on the right of the mural) is the date Mo Mowlam (Beware!) is reported to have decided to force the Drumcree march down Garvaghy Road.
Dromara Street, south Belfast
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“No peace without justice”. Róısín McAliskey (daughter of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey) was arrested in 1996 in connection with a mortar attack on a British Army base in Germany and held in Holloway prison (London) until March 1998.
Ormeau Road, south Belfast
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Mo Mowlam became (Labour) Secretary for Northern Ireland in May 1997, and made a contentious decision to allow the march down Garvaghy Road, though the decision was not revealed until several weeks later, just before the proposed date (Independent). The image above shows a mural in the style of a ‘wanted’ poster for Mowlam – “Have you seen this person? Wanted! For fraud and deception, for GBH on Garvaghy Road.”
Ormeau Road, south Belfast
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Three panels in a row with Ulster First Flute, UVF/PAF/YCV (seen in 1995), and UDA insignia. In the middle, on either side of the UVF’s “for God and Ulster”, masked volunteers carry Uzis.
Albion Street, Belfast, just off Sandy Row.
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Sandy Row South Belfast UDA/UFF funeral volley mural “in proud memory of our fallen comrades. We forget them not – at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.”
Boyne Court, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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Ulster First Flute (Fb) mural in Linfield Gardens, Belfast. Blood drips from a red fist between solemn volunteers and the flags of Britain and Northern Ireland.
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