Boards of the four provinces and a flagpole flying the Irish Tricolour are added to the rooftop of a block of flats in Beechmount Grove, Belfast, and the words “IRA rue Beechmount” written in paint.
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The main image – of women banging bin lids at the approach of British Army soldiers – is complete and the “25 years: time for peace, time to go” stencil is being added at the bottom. Still to come, the title at the top: “Falls/Clonard – 25 years of resistance”.
The circular logo was designed by Robert Ballagh (Circa 1994, p. 22).
For the completed work, see the Paddy Duffy Collection. The top third of this mural was still visible in 2017.
Dunville Street, west Belfast
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A pair of hands with shirt-cuffs of the Union flag and Ulster Banner jointly point a pistol at a republican mother carrying a cross through a graveyard and field of bullets. A line of documents show the forces of the state (B-Specials, UDR, RUC) colluding with loyalist paramilitaries. Oakman Street, Belfast.
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Controversial DUP and later independent politician and preacher George Seawright served as city councillor and NI Assembly member from 1981 to 1986, when he was jailed for his role in physically attacking NI Secretary of State Tom King. He was “murdered by the enemies of Ulster [the IPLO] Nov 1987”. “Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life – Revelation 2 v10.”
The side-wall was later painted – see the Paddy Duffy Collection.
Percy Place, west Belfast
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Red Hand Commando volunteer Stevie McCrea was “murdered by the enemies of Ulster” on February 18th, 1989. An-RHC-modified UVF flag is on the left-hand side.
Broadway/Frenchpark Street, Village, south Belfast – for the large gable wall, see the Paddy Duffy Collection.
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An unusual line drawing mural, in cartoon style, of the UVF emblem (with blood dripping from the red hand) along with UVF flag and Ulster banner. Sandy Row, Belfast.
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A silhouetted volunteer with rifle kneels on a tricolour, with Pearse’s “Ireland unfree shall never be at peace” in one third.
“Painted by the Falls Republican Youth.”
Beechmount Parade, west Belfast
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12 deceased hunger strikers are named on either side of a celtic cross in tricoloured panels, with a stylised bird flying in front. Two masked volunteers stand to attention.
Whiterock Road, Belfast
Bobby Sands Francis Hughes Patsy O’Hara Ray McCreesh Joe McDonnell Martin Hurson Kevin Lynch Kieran Doherty Tom McIlwee [McElwee] Michael Devine Michael Gaughan Frank Stagg
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“The weaponry has changed …” from the rifles used by James Connolly’s ICA of 1916 to the AK-47 of the Bobby Sands-inspired IRA of 1991, “… but the cause stays the same.” Both weapons are crossed with the pike of Emmet’s 1798 against a Tricolour. Also present are a hat (see History Ireland) and a beret.
Beechmount Avenue, Belfast
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1993 image of the board on Beechmount Avenue, Belfast, in support of the “Beechmount Five”: “Release Mark Prior, Liam Coogan, Jim McCabe, Kev Mulholland – these boys are innocent.” (See Greenleft News)
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