Silhouetted figures with raised fists and flashing the victory sign protest for saoırse (freedom).
Lenadoon Avenue, west Belfast
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Saoırse
Belfast west
Collusion Is State Murder
Here are four boards/murals (from Glen Road, Andersonstown Road, Andersonstown Road, and Shaws Road) calling people to a march and rally against collusion on August 10th, 2003. Two include a vintage poster of Margaret “Thatcher – wanted for state murder.”
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Sean Gaynor
“In memory of IRA Volunteer Sean Gaynor who was murdered in his home at 236 Springfield Road by members of the RIC on the 26th September 1920. Erected by the greater Clonard ex-prisoners association.” Gaynor was one of three victims of an RIC murder gang that night (See ROM’s account.)
Colinview Street, Belfast
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
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Freedom Grows
This is a 20′ x 20′ tarp of an 8′ x 8′ painting done by Mo Chara, shipped over from New York and placed on the side of the Falls library, Belfast. It honours the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers with a verse from a Bobby Sands poem and a border of celtic knotwork, the crests of the four provinces, and other revolutionary and civil rights heroes, include Gandhi, MLK, Gaughan & Stagg, Leonard Peltier/the AIM, Nelson Mandela, Maıréad Farrell, and Nora Connolly.
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Orange Bastards
“UVF UFF Orange bastards”, “PSNI scum”, and other republican graffiti, somewhere on the Springfield Road, Belfast.
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Jimbo And Hugo
Jimbo Irvine (age 42) and Hugo Brannigan (62) were killed in the Morning Star (men’s hostel) fire on 12 February 2002.
Springfield Road, Belfast
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Silence = Complicity
Three images of IRPWA graffiti outside the Royal Hospital on the Falls Road, Belfast: “End the blanket torture of republican POWs – Portlaoise * Maghaberry * England”, “Support the POWs protest Sat Aug 10th 2pm Whiterock Road POW mural”, and “Protest 4 POW status. If you care – you’ll be there “Silence = Complicity” IRPWA.”
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Free The POWs
A vintage ‘green ribbon’ from the campaign (from the mid- to late-1990s) to release republican POWs, still high up on a Falls Road, Belfast, wall. Just out of shot to the left: The Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
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Deceased Republican Prisoners
These Bombay Street plaques are “in loving memory of the deceased republican prisoners from the greater Clonard area.” In later years, an additional plaque would be added to the left of 1921-1922 prisoners.
Bombay Street, west Belfast
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Never Again
In August, 1969, families, mostly Catholic, were driven out and their homes burned in Bombay Street (and surrounding streets), between the Falls and Shankill. RTÉ news report | CultureNI on a Red Barn Gallery exhibition of photographs. The defenselessness of the community then is reflected in the urging for “No decommission” in the present. Fıan Gerard McAuley (aged 15) was shot in nearby Waterville Street.
Bombay Street, west Belfast
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