The 20th anniversary board of the blanket and dirty protests in Long Kesh and Armagh begins to look faded in 2003. See previously: 2001 | 2002.
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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Belfast west
Kavanagh & Carberry
IRA volunteers Albert Kavanagh and Stan Carberry were both killed in 1972. Carberry was killed in La Salle Drive, the site of this plaque (at its junction with the Falls Road, Belfast).
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Our Revenge Will Be The Laughter Of Our Children
Here are two 2003 images of the 2001 installation for the 20th anniversary of the hunger strike at the La Salle bend in the Falls Road, Belfast.
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Collusion Kills
“We demand the truth – collusion is state murder”, “Collusion kills”, and a list of “British death squads – RUC UVF LVF”. Tie-ups on the Falls Road, Belfast.
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Collusion! Collusion!
Added to the drawing of collusion between security forces and loyalist paramilitaries are portraits and news reports of its victims: John Slane, John Devine, Peter Watterson, Anthony McGrady, Sadie Larmour, Paddy McAllister, Jim ‘Skipper’ Burns, Paddy BRady, Philomena Hanna, Patrick Hamill, and shopkeepers Jim Carson and Sean Hughes.
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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Pat Finucane
“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”. Rare for a mural, this piece is signed by the artists.
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An Phoblacht
Here is the outside of the An Phoblacht/Republican News office on Andersonstown Road, Belfast in 2003. The symbol in the middle is the crest of 1798’s United Irishmen – “Equality” and “It is new strung and shall be heard” around a Maid Of Erin harp and the cap of liberty. In 2018, the newspaper will only publish on-line. See previously: the mast-head on the side of the Falls Road Sinn Féin office.
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Basque And Irish Youth Independence And Socialism
In Basque: “Euskai eta irlandur gazteria etorkizunagatik borrokan” (“Basque and Irish youth are fighting for the future”). “Éılíonn óıge na mBascach agaus na hÉıreann saoırse agus sóısıalachas”(“Basque and Irish youth demand freedom and socialism”).
Segi (“follow”) is a proscribed organisation in the EU on account of its ties with ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna). It maintains fraternal ties with the youth wing of Sınn Féın.
Andersonstown Road, Belfast
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The Felons
The [Irish republican] Felons’ Club or Cumann Na Méırleach Poblachtach Éıreannach (Fb | tw) in 2003. The club was described by Danny Morrison for The Guardian in 1999; despite his pessimism, the club survives to this day (2017).
Falls Road, west Belfast.
Featured previously: an Easter Rising mural inside the club.
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A Company 1st Battalion Belfast Brigade
“In proud memory of the volunteers from ‘A’ company 1st battalion Belfast brigade Oglaıgh na h-Eıreann who gave their lives in the struggle for Irish freedom also all comrades from the greater republican family who have died and all the people from the area who have been murdered at the hands of the British Army, RUC, UDR and loyalist murder gangs. I measc laochra na nGael go raıbh a n-anamacha.” Shaws Road.
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