The UDA and UVF/YCV share a wall in Matchett Street, Belfast. In the main (UVF) panel, two hooded gunmen with rifles kneel beneath additional weapons on either side the UVF emblem (“For God and Ulster”) and Orange flag and Ulster banner.
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“Happy birthday, comrade”. ANC leader Nelson Mandela turned 70 on July 18, 1988. He spent the day, like every birthday since 1963, in prison; he would not be released until 1990, after which apartheid would be dismantled and Mandela become the first President of South Africa. “The future belongs to you.” The colours of the ANC join the colours of the Irish Tricolour as a background to Mandela’s portrait. Painted by Mo Chara Kelly, with the help of “Sınn Féın Youth”.
Leeson Street, west Belfast
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Here are four images of a variety of slogans on the Falls Road. The first lists various resistance groups from around the world: IRA, PLO, ETA, ANC. The second has a phone number for “SAS strippers” and something about “One Brit and his dog”. In the third and fourth: “Óglaıgh na hÉıreann”, “Provisional IRA”, “Tıocfaıdh ár lá”, “RUC black bastards”.
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This slogan might date to well before this image was taken in 1987
It was still visible in Twinbrook’s Summerhill Road in 2022.
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Sinn Féin election writing on the outside wall on the City Cemetery, Whiterock Road, Belfast. In the distance can be seen The West Has The Best.
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Writing on the Whiterock Road, Belfast: “The west has the best – vote Sınn Féın – vote Adams X”.
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Or, with h-lenition, Teach Sheosaımh Mhıc Gıollabhuí. The Sınn Féın press centre on the Falls Road, Belfast, is named for anti-Treaty IRA man Joe McKelvey, who was also the founder of the O’Donovan Rossa GAA club in Belfast. The mural features the shields of the four provinces and Sınn Féın in Celtic-style lettering.
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Two images of an almost complete Nuada mural by Mo Chara in Springhill Avenue, Belfast. The only thing that seems to be missing is the (titular) lettering, which would go in the red circle – “This is Nuada, king of the Tuatha Dé Danann.” The mural is based on the illustrations of Jim Fitzpatrick.
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Here is a faded and vandalised version (with “PIRA suck shit”) of 1986’s Stad Maggie Anoıs. Beechmount Avenue.
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“Stop! Strip Searches” along with “Sınn Féın”, “Hoods beware” and “Sasanach Amach” on Beechmount Avenue, Belfast.
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