“End British internment of Irish republicans” – stencil below the Sean Mac Dıarmada board in Butler Walk, Ardoyne, north Belfast.
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The three images employed here are: a scene from Grafton Street in the Battle Of Dublin in the civil war (1922) (irishhistory.blogspot.com), PIRA volunteers on patrol in 1987 (top right), and (bottom left) a home-made rocket-launcher used in a 2014 attack on police (see, e.g. irishmirror.ie).
“There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed leaving all of the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.” Bobby Sands (Prison Diary May 1st)
Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast
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“‘The Irish republic must be made a word of conjure with – a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed.’ – James Connolly 5th June 1868 – 12th May 1916.”
James Connolly was concerned not just with the political independence of Ireland but its economic independence: both political and economic liberty were required in order for the human being to live freely. The quote in the image above comes from Connolly’s 1897 essay “Socialism & Nationalism”. The economic context is clear when we read a little more broadly:
“To the tenant farmer, ground between landlordism on the one hand and American competition on the other, as between the upper and the nether millstone; to the wage-workers in the towns, suffering from the exactions of the slave-driving capitalist to the agricultural labourer, toiling away his life for a wage barely sufficient to keep body and soul together; in fact to every one of the toiling millions upon whose misery the outwardly-splendid fabric of our modern civilisation is reared, the Irish Republic might be made a word to conjure with – a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.” (marxists.org)
Takes the place of Padraig Pearse’s “The fools, the fools …” (after some IRPWA stencils) in Brompton Park, Ardoyne, north Belfast
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The forty portraits of local volunteers and activists have been moved over from the mural on Ardoyne Avenue after the plaster fell off (see Ardoyne, Bone, Ligoniel). For the (pre-existing) plaque and cross, see 2002 and 2015.
The portraits are of … above: James Saunders, Gerard McDade, David McAuley, James Reid, Joseph McComiskey, Pat McCabe, Sid McKee, John Copeland, Terry Toolan, Stephen Scullion, Terry Clarke, Declan McCluskey, Patrick Markey, Peter Hamilton, Seamus McCusker, Jim Mulvenna, Lawrence Montgomery, Larry Marley, Alan Lundy
below: Paddy McAdorey, Charles McCann, Joseph Campbell, Seamus Cassidy, Bernard Fox, Brian Smith, James McDade, James O’Hanlon, John Mooney, Barney McKenna, Raymond Wilkinson, Mary McGuigan, Martin Meehan, Maggie McClenaghan, Trevor McKibbin, Frankie Donnelly, Billy Carson, Sean Bateson, Thomas Begley
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Above is a recent (2014-09) mural by Damian Walker in the New Lodge, in support of republican prisoners in Maghaberry, showing a single bloodied republican prisoner surrounded by three baton-wielding officers. Sponsored the 32-County Sovereignty Movement (web).
Replaces: Damn Your Concessions, England
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A Che Guevara quote – “I don’t care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting” – unifies two panels bearing masked men firing funeral volleys, Irish and Palestinian shields, and “Our day will come” and “freedom” in both Irish and Arabic.
Carlisle Road/Queen’s Parade, below Teach Chú Chulaınn in the New Lodge flats
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Stencil of the iconic Che over his father’s words: “[In my son’s veins flowed the] Blood of an Irish rebel”. (See previously: Che Guevara Lynch)
Below Teach Oısín in the New Lodge
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“Cumann Na mBan” in Irish is “the women’s organization/council/society” in English. The organization in question is the republican paramilitary group which was founded on April 2, 1914 and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2014.
The mural is at the bottom of Teach Na bhFıann/Fianna House (formerly Dill House) in the New Lodge.
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Éırígí (web) support for the PFLP (Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine – WP). For more on the “skyjacker” Leila Khaled, see the mural featuring her in Hugo Street.
Ludlow Square, New Lodge, north Belfast
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A “historical wall feature” was unveiled in January (BBC) by the Shared History Interpretive Project (SHIP) (web | Fb) on the outside of the Dockers’ Club in Pilot Street in Sailortown. The new piece is a montage of about 60 images of vintage photographs, a census form, and posters of industrial life. In the top-middle there can be seen an image of the board this one replaces, which featured two carters pulling away a heavy load.
Another addition in the work is the inclusion of Billy McMullen (1888-1982) and John Quinn (1876-1935) alongside Winifred Carney (1887-1943), James Connolly (1868-1916), and Jim Larkin (1876-1947). Both McMullen and Quinn are Belfast trades-unionists. Quinn’s headstone in Milltown Cemetery can be seen in Forgotten In Life, Remembered In Death.
Pilot Street, Sailortown, north Belfast
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