“The support of our people is obvious, in that we could not survive or increase our operations without it. With our support, our weaponry and the calibre of our volunteers and activists, we will win and are set firmly [on] the task of achieving victory.” With the lark as the ‘Spirit of freedom’ and a celebrating volunteer in the tri-colours. New Lodge Road, Belfast.
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“Minister, is there any truth to the allegations of a shoot to kill policy?” “Absolutely none,” says the minister whose nose is growing. New Lodge Road, Belfast.
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75th anniversary mural of the Easter Rising, 1916-1991, in Donore Court, Belfast.
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“The spirit (of outdoor music – fiddle, accordion, and flute – and Irish dancing) still lives”, “Maıreann ceoıl agus cultúır na ndaoıne [the music and culture of the people] go foıll”. Mural celebrating the Ard Eoın/Ardoyne Fleadh Cheoıl.
Brompton Park, north Belfast
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This “Fáılte go dtí Ard Eoın” (Welcome to Ardoyne) mural celebrates the local Cumann Luthcleas Gael (Gaelic Athletic Club) (Tw) “founded 1902”, with images of a footballer and a camogie player. At the bottom is a standing eagle in Celtic style.
Havana Way, Belfast.
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Light through prison bars illuminates a prostrate hunger striker attended by two women, one of whom wears a headscarf in the tricolours – this board is from 1986. Below it (visible in the wide shot) is an earlier Easter Rising commemoration mural (from 1991) with portraits of the seven signatories to the proclamation arranged around a large lily.
Berwick Road, Ardoyne, north Belfast
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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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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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Here is the top half of a mural in Berwick Road/Paráid An Ardghleanna. The board at the top reproduces a 1972 postcard entitled Easter with two women – on the left a young woman (Ireland in flames, perhaps suggesting the Rising) and on the right, an old woman (Mother Ireland?) – watching over a prisoner by the light from a prison window. (Image #39 in Belinda Loftus’s 1982 dissertation Images In Conflict.)
The bottom (with quotes from Connolly and Pearse) was seen in the 1989 image An Attitude Of Revolt.
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