This is an advertising hoarding on Andersonstown Road for the Belfast Féıle. There was also a tarp in the Rock streets. See also: Derry’s 2008 féıle.
The central photograph was originally taken in front of Divis flats, by Sean McKernan (Belfast Exposed).
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Éırígí (web) was formed in 2006 and became a political party in 2007, with candidates standing for two seats in 2011’s local elections. For its public art, it used stencils to promote itself and to highlight issues such as the continued presence of British troops in the North (“There are more British troops in Ireland than in Iraq”).
Andersonstown Road, Belfast
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A mural painter puts the finishing touches to a call to a “Hunger-Strike March & Rally Sun 17th Aug. For bus details contact S[ınn] F[éın]”.
Falls Road/Glen Road, Belfast
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“Pearse Jordan, unarmed IRA volunteer, a victim of Britain’s shoot-to-kill policy. Murdered by RUC! Covered up by PSNI. Over 1,100 people have been killed by British government policies of collusion – all with official impunity. Justice delayed – justice denied. Truth and justice now!” Jordan was shot in 1992. The killing was ruled unlawful by the European Court Of Human Rights in 1991 (WP).
Glen Road/Falls Road, Belfast
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It’s not clear that this ‘collusion’ tarp – with spider-legs of MI5, UDR, PSNI, RHC, UFF, LVF, UDA, UVF and a web beginning at the door of 10 Downing Street – was ever hung, perhaps due to the spelling mistake: “A web of double-agents, death squads and deciept [sic]”. Similar image on Andersonstown Road. It is lying at the Glen Road-Falls Road junction, site of the old RUC barracks.
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“Féıle An Phobaıl, 1988-2008 fıche blıaın/20 years. Fáılte go dtí West Belfast. Join in and enjoy the craic. Adh mór [good luck] Sat 2nd Aug – Sun 10th Aug”. A Robert Ballagh illustration of a dove-shaped lily emerging from a border bollard, done originally for Féıle in 1993. Rockdale Street, Belfast.
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“Gaza bleeds, the world fiddles.” Graffiti on the Falls Road, Belfast, perhaps in response to the 112 Palestinians killed in February 2008 (WP | Al Jazeera). For a wide shot, see Hair Peace.
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“Targeted by British Establishment; Executed by Loyalist killer gang.” Solicitor and “human rights activist” Pat Finucane was shot in 1989 at his home in north Belfast by loyalist paramilitaries aided by MI5. Collusion in the killing was admitted in 2011 by then-Prime Minister David Cameron. Ten years after Finucane’s death, Rosemary Nelson was also assassinated. “If you don’t defend human rights lawyers, who will defend human rights? – Rosemary Nelson”. The plaque was “unveiled by his family Sunday 11th February 2007”.
The board in Beechmount Drive was originally black.
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Originally mounted for the 25th anniversary of the (1981) strike in 2006, the hunger striker mosaics were still in place in 2008.
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“Join now – http://www.rsym.org” The Republican Socialist Youth Movement is no longer at the URL. Beechmount Avenue, Belfast, next to the Turkish Hunger Strikes and Santa Is A British Agent.
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