Two Brendan Lillis boards at the former site of the Andersonstown RUC barracks. The first is below No Bail For Murderers; the second is on top of On The One Road.
The accusation of “medical neglect” an appeal for compassionate release due to Lillis’s suffering from the arthritic condition, ankylosing spondylitis. For political background, see Release Brendan Lillis.
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“Leadership across Ireland/Ceannasaíocht Across Ireland. Vótáıl Paul Maskey”. Sınn Féın boards in the grounds of Connolly House.
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Cú Chulaınn stands dying. In addition to the four provinces in the corners, the four colours of man can be seen in the apex (as a background to Ireland). Tuan the hawk historian, who has seen all of the conquests of Ireland, flies overhead. (Both Tuan and the four colours are familiars of Mo Chara Kelly.)
“Ar aghaıdh lınn” [Onward! or Let’s go!]
Glenbawn Avenue, Belfast
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A red-headed lass with a horn stands watch for others at a mass rock – a stone in a remote location for Catholic worship, made necessary by a Penal law of 1695 which forbade the religious practice of Catholicism and “dissenter” forms of Protestantism (that is, anything other than Anglicism) (source). The harp, with a “cap of liberty” rather than a crown (WP), together the slogan “Equality – It is new strung and it shall be heard” is the emblem of the Society of United Irishmen (WP). On the other side of the mural linen lies in the fields bleaching and a farmer and wife plough the land with a team of horses and distribute seed.
Glenbawn Avenue, Belfast
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Relatives for justice (web) youth project holds an annual vigil for victims of plastic bullets and their families. This display places cut-out figures on the railings of the City Cemetery at the distances at which they were hit by a rubber or plastic bullet, between 1972 and 1989. (Previously done in mural form on Divis Street: Ban Plastic Bullets.)
From left to right, the victims are Keith White, Norah McCabe, John Downes, Tobias Molloy, Peter McGuinness, Stephen McConomy, Paul Whitters, Francis Rowntree, Julie Livingstone, Carol Ann Kelly, Seamus Duffy, Brian Stewart, Henry Duffy, Michael Donnelly, Thomas Friel, Peter Doherty.
The board on the far right contains an acrostic for “Plastic Bullets”: “Panic – Lethal – Age – Sorrow – Terror – Innocence – Children. Ban them – Unnecessary – Loss – Life – Extreme use – Transgenerational trauma – Stop using them”.
With support from Pobal, An tAontas Eorpach, and the Community Relations Council.
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For the 30th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike, the Dockers & Carters mural was replaced by a large mural of republican heroes on Northumberland Street, with Francis Hughes at the centre.
(For more in-progress images, the completed mural, and a list of the portraits, see X00384.)
Northumberland Street, west Belfast
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For the 30th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike, the mosaics of the Troubles-era hunger strikers are mounted around the blanket-men board and above the Phoenix in Clowney Street; for a few years they were previously at the Falls-Beechmount corner.
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An information board is added below the plaque and mask of James Connolly on the front of the house in which he and his family lived, from 1910 to 1913, at Glenalina Terrace on the Falls Road.
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Two additions to the Beechmount memorial garden (seen previously in Beechmount Óglaıgh):
a cross and photograph of Óglach Sean “Seando” Moore, who died in 2010; the oration at his funeral was given by Danny Morrison (An Phoblacht)
Cuımhníonn Lár Na bhFál/Mid Falls remembers – a banner with portraits of 10 volunteers and 7 Sınn Féın activists.
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“This mural is dedicated to the memory of those killed and maimed by rubber & plastic bullets fired by the police & British Army. Not one member of the security forces ever served a day in jail for the deaths, many of them children, despite the courts ruling on the innocence of the victims. Plastic bullets are still being used on the streets of the north of Ireland today.”
There were initially nine panels (of 15 victims each) but as the wide shot above shows, six more have now been added, so that the memorial to seventeen people killed by rubber or plastic bullets since 1970 is at the centre of 15 panels of portraits, in a wall “dedicated to the families who have fought and are still fighting for truth and justice for their loved ones. It is also dedicated to all those who have died as a result of state-sponsored killings. This Project is a work in progress and is not conclusive. If you wish a loved one to be included please contact An Fhírınne … Tá an balla seo tıomnaıthe do na teaghlaıgh a throıd agus atá ag troıd go fóıll, thar ceann a muıntıre ıonúıne, ar son na fírınne agus na córa. Tá sé tıomnaıthe fosta dóıbh sıúd uılıg a fuaır bás de dheasca maruıthe státurraıthe. Obaır ıdır lamha atá sa tıonscnamh seo agus níl sé críochnaıthe go fóıll. Dá mba mhıan leat duıne de do mhuıntır ıonúın féın a bheıth curtha san áıreamh, ıarrtar ort teagmháıl a dhéanamh leıs An Fhírınne.”
Beechmount Avenue/Ascaıll Ard na bhFeá, Belfast
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