“Venceremos” is a Spanish Civil War slogan meaning “we will win (or: overcome)”, here alongside Irish revolutionaries armed with rifles and machine guns against a background of tricolour and sunburst.
Slemish Way/Andersonstown Road, Belfast
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“Victory [to the] IRA”. Volunteers with RPGs and armalites on Shaws Road, Belfast, kneeling over an outline of Ireland in green, white, and gold. The original (unattributed) photograph is below.
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M00114
“We must grow tough, but without ever losing our tenderness.” Three female activists, one with a rifle, proclaim “Resistance” on the Falls Road, Belfast “painted by Sınn Féın Youth”. The phrase is attributed to Che Guevara. Rolston (1991 p. 94) claims this mural was done for International Women’s Day 1982 (March 6th). An in-progress image can be seen in the Paddy Duffy Collection.
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“Of course we can be murdered, but while we remain alive, we remain what we are, political prisoners of war – B. Sands”. A lark in barbed wire on an Irish tricolour, with the names of the ten hunger-strikers who died: B. Sands, F. Hughes, P. O’Hara, K. Lynch, M. Devine, R. McCreesh, J. McDonnell, M. Hurson, K. Doherty, T, McIlwee [McElwee].
Whiterock Road, Belfast.
The latter images show an earlier version of the mural, with six names, and the wall in preparation.
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“Prisoner of war, Kieran Doherty T.D. Murdered! 2nd August 1981”
Rosnareen Avenue, west Belfast
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“Hands off Ireland, bitch”, with a line drawing of Margaret Thatcher; “No, not a dog, but a political prisoner” with a prisoner on all fours. Also a harp in green, white, and gold, and a phoenix with Tricolours, and a hand clasping a dagger.
Rosnareen Park, west Belfast
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M00095 [M00379]
In addition to the board at the top of the stairs there is a tricolour with “IRA” on it (to the left) and (on the right) the names, in Irish, of the first four hunger-strikers on either side of a celtic cross: Roıbeard Ó Seachnasagh, Eamonn Mac Craoıs, Pronsıas Ó hAodha, and Pádraıg Ó hEadhra.
For the twin end-wall, see Their Hunger, Their Pain, Our Struggle.
Shaws Road, west Belfast.
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An advertising hoarding on the Springfield Road (just before the Whiterock Road), Belfast, is taken over by a republican artist: “H” and “A” for the H-Blocks and Armagh Women’s Prison, with the names of four hunger-strikers (Bobby Sands Patsy O’Hara, Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh) and two tricolours.
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“Support the hunger strikers”, “Don’t let them die”, with posters of portraits, on “Day 55” of the 1981 hunger strike.
lower Falls Road, west Belfast
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A slightly different list from the one featured yesterday (in Until The Last Prisoner Is Free) “1. No prison uniform; 2. No prison work; 3. Free Association; 4. Education facilities; 5. Full remission”, “Smash H Block”.
Whiterock Road, west Belfast
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Peter Moloney Collection 
