Stone squares carved with images and words such as “racism” and “respect” on the side wall of the Credit Union at the junction of Springfield and Whiterock Roads. “Upper Springfield Development Company, Ltd. Launched by Gerry Adams, 28th Sept 2006.” “Environment Achievement Award. Sponsored by West Belfast Partnership 2006.”
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1998’s Good Friday (or: Belfast) Agreement called for a human rights commission to advise on a bill of rights. Ten years later (in 2008) the commission presented its report. The list above is from The Community Foundation [For] Northern Ireland. Comhairle Phobail na bhFál (Falls Community Council): “Life; freedom of thought and religion; peaceful assembly; freedom from torture, cruelty; national self-determination; fair conditions of work; join a trade union; social security; maternity leave; be protected from exploitation; housing; education; participate in cultural life.” (A further ten years later – 2018 – there is still no bill.)
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The Kieran Nugent mural at the corner of Divis Street and Northumberland Street is repainted to include posters from the time of the blanket protest and also in tribute to Brendan ‘The Dark’ Hughes, IRA OC in the H-Blocks at the time of the first (1980) hunger strike. He passed away in February, 2008.
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“Nakba” or “Catastrophe” is the Arabic name for the exodus of about 700,000 Palestinian Arabs in 1948, from what would become Israel. Although the mural states “We will return!”, there has as yet been not right of return or compensation for lands seized.
The graffiti in blue on the wall reads “You destroy our homes but we build a nation”.
Please get in touch if you can translate the Arabic.
The International Wall, Divis Street, west Belfast
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“Maghaberry Prisoners Not Forgotten – End internment by remand!!! IRPWA” IRPWA = Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association (irpwa.com).
Divis Street, Belfast
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“Iarsmalann na Staıre Poblachtach Éıreannach. Irish Republican History Museum. Conway Mill Complex. Tá fáılte roımh gach duıne.” with anti-Sınn Féın graffiti below.
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A Manchester Martyrs mural is returned to Divis Street’s “International Wall” after being replaced for a short time by Las Brigadas Internacionales. The new mural is somewhat similar to the original mural, with portraits of the “martyrs” – IRB members William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O’Brien – and a reproduction of a painting showing the IRB’s attack on the prison van which killed a guard (see the post on the original mural).
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2008 image of the Askatasuna mural (seen in 2007) on the “International Wall” on Divis Street, Belfast.
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“A leader is gone – the legend forever lives on! Codaıl samh a chomradaí.” Long-time IRA volunteer Martin Meehan, who went with the Provisionals in the split, spent 18 years in prison during the Troubles, and stood in various elections for Sınn Féın, died of a heart attack in November 2007. Divis Street, Belfast.
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“This lamp has been erected and dedicate to the memory of those innocent victims of the Shankill Bombing on Saturday 23rd October 1993 and to all innocent victims of terrorism from the Shankill community. ‘To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.’ St Luke Chapter 1 Verse 79.” Nine people, plus one of the bombers, died in the bombing of Frizzell’s fish shop.
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