“RUC must go anoıs! [now]”. Stencil on Andersonstown Road, Belfast.
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Anoıs!
Belfast west
Saoırse
A fist clenched two strands of barbed wire. “Saoırse [freedom] – Free all POWs”.
Andersonstown Road, west Belfast
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The Irish Hungerstrike
The 20th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike is commemorated on the side of the Felons club with Bobby Ballagh’s Legacy Of The Hunger Strikes, showing ten doves breaking out of a H-Block. For the controversy over the image, see this Guardian article. Falls Road/Lake Glen Drive.
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St James’s Support The Hunger Strikers
In-progress shots of the St James community mural in Hugo Street, Belfast, including posters of 1981 hunger strikers Bernard Fox and Pat Sheehan. A blanketman would be added at the top and a funeral scene – with child leaning on coffin – to the left.
Click here for the completed mural.
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On The Brink Of Sectarian Disaster
Dissatisfaction with Billy McMillen’s leadership of the Belfast OIRA led to the Provisionals splitting off in 1969, after the outbreak of the Troubles in August. The PIRA made two attempts on his life. He was killed, however, by a member of the INLA – the result of the second (1974) split from the Officials – in 1975. Here is a pamphlet of his writings, including the 1973 Bodenstown speech from which the quotation comes. The board features a famous image of Markets OIRA leader Joe McCann.
Clondara St, Belfast
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They May Kill The Revolutionary
“They may kill the revolutionary, but never the revolution.” The phrase is attributed to Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. Republican volunteer with AK in front of a Tricolour. Rockmore Road, Belfast. Seen previously in 1999.
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The Ten
Portraits (along with ages and dates of death) of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers against backgrounds of their home areas. Mickey Devine, for example, is shown in front of Free Derry Corner while Martin Hurson is at a football game.
For seven of these panels in 1995, see Seven.
Rockmore Road, west Belfast
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F Block Martyrs
816 prisoners in 18 Turkish jails went on hunger strike in protest at conditions in “F-type” prisons in late 2000. 122 people died, both inside and outside the prisons, in connection with the protest (WP).
Falls Road, west Belfast
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Comhıonannas Do Gach Duıne
Scots Guardsmen Mark Wright and James Fisher, who served six years of a life sentence for the killing of Peter McBride and then rejoined the army, are compared to republican POWs: “An open letter to the British Secretary of State: Why does your government show preferential treatment to ‘state murders’ while discriminating against Irish POWs – we are denied employment, PSV license, no adoption, compensation, visas. Why? Signed St James’s POWs. Co[m]hıonannas do gach duıne” (equality for everyone)
Donegall Road, west Belfast
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St Patrick’s Day Funding Denied
In this board from “St James’s youth” and “St James’s ex-prisoners and carnival choas” St Patrick at the head of a parade of children is blocked from city hall by an Orangeman. The first St Patrick’s day parade to be held in Belfast city centre was in 1998 but funding for this and parades until 2006 was denied on the grounds that it was not inclusive of Protestants (Bryan & Skinner). The event “Tús maıth leath na hoıbre” [a good start is half the work].
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