“Conway linen mill 1842-1976.” Culture NI has a brief history of the mill. It is currently in use as an arts centre and museum.
“Artists Margaret McCann & Deborah Hamilton 06. Beechmount Community Project.”
Another piece for the project was hung in Beechmount Avenue. See M04431.
Thames Street, Belfast
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Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
M03527
“I ndíl [ndıl] chuımhne Máıre Drumm, Vice President of Sınn Féın, assassinated by loyalists 28th Oct. 1976. ‘We must take no steps backward, our steps must be onward, for if we don’t, the martyrs that died for you, for me, for this country, will haunt us forever.'” Máıre Drumm was Vice President from 1972 until her death, killed in the Mater hospital by RHC volunteers dressed as doctors.
Falls Road, Belfast
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M03526
2007 image of the Manchester Martyrs mural, discussed in the 2006 entry.
Divis Street, Belfast
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Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
M03524
“Collusion was not only not an illusion, it was the whole goddamn institution.” The participating groups are listed as UDA, UDR, RUC, Brits, RIR, MI5, LVF, UVF, coordinated by No 10 Downing Street.
Divis Street, Belfast
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Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
M03523
“USA: Hands off Cuba. Stop plan Bush. Support Cuba’s right to continued independence. No to imperialism, No US military aggression. End the US economic blockade of Cuba. End the US occupation of Guantanamo Bay. Stop the crazy son of a Bush.”
Divis Street, Belfast
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Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
M03522
Mythical Ireland is depicted with a fairy, harper, dolmen, and warrior. See previously Draoıchláırseoırí An Chınn Bhaıle.
Ardmonagh Gardens, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2006 Peter Moloney
M03245
“In loving memory of Gerard Gibson, died 11-7-1972 [aged 16 years, OIRA], Michael Kearney, died 18-2-1987 [aged 21 years, IRA], Kevin McCracken, died 14-3-1988 [aged 31 years, IRA, shot in Norglen Crescent]. A thug a mbeatha de chrógacht ar son saoırse na hÉıreann [who bravely gave their lives for Irish freedom] Always remembered by the neighbours and friends of Lower Norglen Parade.”
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Copyright © 2006 Peter Moloney
M03244
Scenes from republican history portrayed on boards along the Andersonstown Road, for the 25th anniversary commemoration of the 1981 hunger strike: “The Great Escape” (the escape of republican prisoners from HMP Maze in 1983), “Death On The Rock” (the killing of three IRA members on Gibraltar in 1988), electoral posters for Bobby Sands MP, Kieran Doherty TD, Kevin Lynch (stood in Waterford), Joe McDonnell (stood in Sligo-Leitrim), Owen Carron MP, Martin McGuinness (1982 Assembly member, on ballot with Sınn Féın’s Cathal Crumley), Gerry Adams MP, and the negotiating table merging with the long road.
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M03297 M03296 M03295 M03294
“The Felons remembers” the 12 republicans to die on hunger strike from the 1970s and 80s on the front of the club on the Falls Road.
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Copyright © 2006 Peter Moloney
M03298
Stages of the “conveyor belt” – arrest by the Army, trial before a Diplock court, strip searches in Long Kesh and Armagh, the dirty protest, supported by an RAC [Relatives Action Committee], and finally, hunger strikes – are recreated in murals and reenactments on flat-bed lorries along the Falls Road for the 25th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike.
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M03284 M03273 M03293 M03283 M03286 [M03287] M03291
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