Anti-collusion writing off the Falls Road in Andersonstown. Seen previously in 2003.
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Collusion Is State Murder
Belfast west
Free The Castlerea Five!
The name of Michael O’Neill – one of the still-imprisoned Castlrea Five – is changed to “Michael Wings”. The reference is unknown; it is probably a local youth making his mark. Previously seen in 2003
Andersonstown Road, Belfast
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Brendan McNamee – Miriam Daly
Brendan McNamee was shot by the Officials in 1975; Miriam Daly was shot by loyalists in her Andersonstown home. “In death as in life they remain an inspiration to everyone who believes in Irish freedom. Erected by the Irish Republican Socialist Ex-Prisoners Memorial Committee.”
Andersonstown Road, west Belfast
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RUC Must Go Anoıs!
“RUC Must Go Anoıs [now]!” A vintage stencil (see another from 2001) in Owenvarragh Park/Páırc Abhaınn Bhearach, west Belfast
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A Web Of Double Agents
“Collusion – a web of double agents, death squads and deceit.” The legs of the spider are marked “PSNI/RUC”, “Special Branch”, “RHC”, “UFF”, “MI5/MI6”, “LVF”, “UDR/UDA”, “UVF”. The web is emanating from the door to 10 Downing Street in the top left.
Andersonstown Road, west Belfast
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Brian Robinson
“1st Batt B Coy Vol Brian Robinson killed in action 2nd Sept 1989. For his country and people he took up the gun a volunteer to the end and a true Ulster son robbed of his life’s blood in Sept 89 but the name Brian Robinson will live for all time.” Robinson was killed by an army undercover unit moments after he had shot and killed a Catholic named Patrick McKenna (WP). As the plaque notes, his mother died at the same time – she reportedly had a heart-attack when she heard of his death.
Disraeli Street, west Belfast
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Come Home 2 A Real Fire
A vintage republican graffito (e.g. Getty Images) against the RUC is resurrected for use in loyalist Woodvale. Both refer to the “Real Fire” ad campaign from the 80s (e.g. one | two). The Solid Fuel Advisory Service still (2018) uses the image of the dog, cat, and mouse side-by-side.
Disraeli Street, west Belfast
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Proactively Supporting Nationalist Ideology
These are two pieces of anti-police graffiti on Woodvale Road, Belfast. In the first, the force’s initials are changed from “Police Service of Northern Ireland”; the second reads “Fuck the PSNI” (and below, “Fuck the LVF”).
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Woodvale Defence Association
The Woodvale Defence Association (WDA) was the largest of the local associations which merged together in 1971 to form the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the WDA became B company of 2nd battalion (WP).
Disraeli Street, Woodvale, west Belfast
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No 5 Platoon
This UVF platoon 5, A company, 1st battalion, mural is just across Conway Street from the Noel and Tombo Kinner mural, which is also a platoon 5 mural. The plaque is “in memory of a true soldier, Big Bill Campbell”; for more info on Campbell, see Loyalist Prisoners & Widow’s Welfare (from when the plaque was moved up to the Shankill Road).
The verse on the left is from Siegfried Sassoon’s Suicide In The Trenches. “At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we shall remember them” is from another WWI poem, Laurence Binyon’s For The Fallen.
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