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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“Fuaır sıad bás ar son na hÉıreann. To the memory of all members and friends of the Official IRA who gave their lives in pursuit of the establishment of a democratic socialist republic in Ireland, in common cause with men and women of all nations struggling for liberty, equality and fraternity between all the peoples of the world.” Joe McCann beneath the Plough In The Stars is shown in the bottom left.
Springfield Road, Belfast
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The Twinbrook gallery is updated for the 30th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike. Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg (from the 1970s) are included on the left; Bobby Sands is portrayed separately off to the right. See e.g. the 25th anniversary post in 2006.
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“Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.” For the thirtieth anniversary (30ú comóradh) of his death on May 5th, 1981, a board in Twinbrook remembering IRA volunteer, hunger striker, and MP, Bobby Sands.
Twinbrook Road, Belfast
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Two sides of the same board, in the front yard of Connolly House (Sınn Féın headquarters on the Andersonstown Road). Top, “sometimes it takes a 4-letter word to be heard … vótáıl Sınn Féın” with four moments of protest – votes for women, Civil Rights, Sands’s election, Sands. Bottom, 95th anniversary Easter Rising commemoration with (1981 hunger striker) Pat Sheehan as the main speaker.
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“‘Dublin, Belfast, Cork, and Donegal [we’re] on the one road‘ to Irish Unity. Vótáıl Sınn Féın on May 5th.” Electoral board at the Glen Road/Falls Road junction.
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In the 2011 council elections, Pádraıc Mac Coıtır stood for Éırígí in Upper Falls and John McCusker in Lower Falls; neither were elected (WP).
Glen Road/Falls Road, Belfast
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IRA prisoner Kieran Nugent is reputed to have said – upon being imprisoned after the removal of Special Category status in 1976 – “I’m not a criminal – the Brits will have to nail prison clothes to my back.”
The mural is a February repainting of Cıarán Nugent and for the launch it was surrounded with posters from the period.
Rockville Street, Belfast
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