For the 20th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike, this freestanding “H” was constructed along the Falls Road, Belfast. Across the centre bar are the words (usually attributed to Bobby Sands) “our revenge will be the laughter of our children” and images of IRA (Tricolour) and youth (Sunburst) volunteers firing over a lark encircled in barbed wire.
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A complete version of Bobby Sands’s poem The Rhythm Of Time, along with the names and portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers, and Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg, who died on hunger strike in England.
Rockdale Street, west Belfast
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“I ndıl chuımhne na gcımí poblachtanacha a fuaır bas ı ngéıbheann ı rıth na coımhlınte reatha seo.” A lark bursts through prison bars of Long Kesh, Portlaoise, and prisons in England, in which republicans have died from the 70s to 90s.
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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Twentieth anniversary of the hunger strikes in Long Kesh and Armagh Women’s prison, 1980-2000.
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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Stencils in Beechmount Avenue, Belfast: “Join Sınn Féın now” and “Disband the RUC”.
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The Gibraltar Three (Maıréad Farrell, Sean Savage, Dan McCann) – “executed by British crown forces in Gibraltar 6th March 1988” – are memorialised with a plaque and the last three verses of Bobby Sands’s Rhythm Of Time: “It is found in every light of hope/It knows no bounds nor space/It has risen in red and black and white/It is there in every race.//It lies in the hearts of heroes dead/It screams in tyrants’ eyes/It has reached the peak of mountains high/It comes searing ‘cross the skies.//It lights the dark of this prison cell/It thunders forth its might/It is the undauntable thought, my friend/That thought that says ‘I’m right!'”
Hawthorn Street, west Belfast
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Shots are fired over a Tricolour-covered coffin, with a poster or plaque of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers.
For the phoenix below, see The People Arose in ’69.
Clowney Street, west Belfast
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The mask of “revisionism” covers the face of “truth” reading the book of “Irish history”. Originally painted in 1996 by Ciaran McKeirnan, Brian O’Loan, and Donal Daly, son of IRSP leader Miriam Daly, who was killed by the UDA in 1980, and to whom the title quote is attributed.
There is an in-progress shot in the Paddy Duffy Collection and another by Sean Patrick Allen on his Facebook page.
Oakman Street, west Belfast
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“This mural is dedicated to the Women of Cumann Na mBan, Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann & Sınn Féın.” Image “from R[uth] Taillon’s book The Women Of 1916.” Taillon is a Canadian who moved to Belfast in 1980 and has been doing work with the women’s movement in the north and on women’s history – see NVTv.w
Hawthorn Street, west Belfast
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“In memory of the taxi drivers who lost their lives.” The gates of Milltown cemetery and the Andersonstown RUC base flank a black taxi beneath a celtic cross. Shiels Street, Belfast.
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