“I gcuımhne na maırbh dílıs” [“In memory of the faithful dead”] “Clonard martyrs C coy 2nd battalion Belfast Brigade Óglaıgh na hÉıreann roll of honour.” The right-hand plaque commemorates “civilians murdered by loyalists and British forces during the course of the conflict”. “I measc laochra na nGaedheal go raıbh sıad – go ndeana Dıa trócaıre ar a nanamacha”.
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“This plaque is dedicated to the people of the greater Clonard who have resisted and still resist the occupation of our country by Britain. We acknowledge with pride the sacrifices they made throughout every decade. Their names would be too numerous to mention, and their deeds of bravery and resistance are un-equalled in the history of our struggle. We, the republican ex-prisoners of the greater Clonard, salute you, and your reward will only be a united Ireland.” This is the plaque in the left-hand third of the Clonard memorial garden.
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Portraits of the deceased are added to the left and right railings of the Clonard Memorial Garden for the March Of Truth.
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Fian Gerald McAuley was shot on Waterville Street by loyalists while helping residents move out of their burned-out homes on Bombay Street during the commencement of the Troubles in 1969 (An Phoblacht). This new board replaces a similar one on the other side of Bombay Street.
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“Direct rule! Can you afford it? Rates increases; lost investment; water charges; education cuts; job losses; health cuts; economic collapse; racism; sectarianism; unfair planning laws; more rural decline. Speak up! There is an alternative. Restore the institutions; implement the Good Friday Agreement. All your futures. Find your voice. http://www.november24.org .” Sınn Féın board above the Falls Road office.
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Here is a final float from the March For Truth, with a blanket man on the “dirty” or “no wash” protest. The last six of the deceased 1981 hunger strikers are portrayed along the skirting of the van.
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Two images of various “soldiers” from the March For Truth; in the second they are chained up but still carrying arms.
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The Troubles in Belfast began with violence along the interface between the Falls and Shankill in Clonard. Houses in Bombay Street and others (listed in the images above) were burned out and their inhabitants displaced.
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Here are four images of another float in the March For Truth, this one on the issue of Shoot To Kill. In the second panel are six people shot in Lurgan in three incidents in November and December of 1982: Seamus Grew, Roddy Carroll, Michael Tighe, Gervaise McKerr, Sean Burns, Eugene Toman. These would be investigated by the Stalker Inquiry. The third panel shows the killings of (Celtic supporter) Thomas ‘Kidso’ Reilly in St Aidan’s (Private Ian Thain of the Light Infantry Regiment would serve two years for the killing) and of Sean Savage on Gibraltar.
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These two images from the March For Truth concern collusion (and plastic bullets). The large board in the first image (“Murdered by the British state”) gives a list of victims of and attacks (from 1974-1977) by the Glenanne Gang, which operated in Armagh and Tyrone with members from the UVF, RUC, and UDR (WP).
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