This 1990 image of the Vol. Joe Doherty mural on the New Lodge Road (by Mo Chara and “New Lodge Republican Youth”), Belfast includes the message on the side-wall comparing the revolution in Ireland to the revolution in the United States: “Would the US Att. General Edwin Meese have deported George Washington? Don’t handover Joe Doherty to British warlords!”
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1990 image of the Gibraltar 3 mural in Stanhope Street, Belfast, including a flag of the province of Ulster.
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Republican graffiti in New Lodge flats: “INLA” and James Connolly’s quote “The great only appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise.” “Provos” has been whited out, below.
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This is an interesting mural from North Queen Street, if only because of its psychedelic colour-scheme and composite style.
The two bulls (presumably from the Táın though they are not the classic brown and white bulls) provide a centre, on either side of which we find Cú Chulaınn dying (and Tuan the eagle) and a dolmen. The horse on the right is perhaps Galloper. There are four faces superimposed on flying geese. The cranes Samson and Goliath are on the left (which suggests a cross-community sponsorship) and a Pride rainbow is on the right.
The mural can also be seen in the Paddy Duffy Collection. If you have any information about the piece, please get in touch.
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Women from around the world, including Palestine, are represented in this mural in Unity flats, Belfast. Here’s Christy Moore’s recording of the Michael MacConnell song Only Our Rivers Run Free.
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1990 image showing a damaged version of Mo Chara’s Oppose Censorship opposite St Thomas’s school on the Whiterock Road, Belfast
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Núada of the Tuatha Dé Danann and Morrígan (from Jim Fitzpatrick’s Beneath The Sky Of Stars) embrace below a ram (from Fitzpatrick’s Senach The Spectre) and between Celtic creatures inspired by the Book Of Kells.
(This is probably not the “dragon mural” mentioned by Julian Watson in Circa #8.)
Unity flats, west Belfast
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Here is another instance of the ‘masked skull’ design produced by prisoners in Long Kesh (according to Mo Chara Kelly), seen previously in Britains Death Squads. This version is simpler: it does not have any writing and there is no UDR emblem on the UDA-style hat. Beechmount Avenue, Belfast.
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Painted in 1989 and badly damaged by 1990: Britain’s death squads: UDA and UVF behind the sunglasses and mask on one side, the UDR and RUC on the other, with clothing and skin stripped away, and the British Army at the bottom. To the left of shot is Dagda and to the right Union Jack Crumbling.
Painted by Mo Chara Kelly in Springhill Avenue, west Belfast.
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Leonard Peltier is serving two life sentences for the deaths of FBI agents in a shootout in Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (WP). Amnesty International describes his trial as “unfair”. “Framed by the FBI”. AIM is American Indian Movement and the four colours are the colours of man.
Mural by Mo Chara Kelly and Bob Kelly in Springhill Avenue, Belfast.
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