A trio of volunteers with Long Kesh in the background fire a funeral volley over photographic portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers.
Springhill Avenue, west Belfast
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“Support the prisoner candidate” – former PIRA volunteer and CIRA leader Tommy Crossan stood from Maghaberry Prison as a RSF candidate for West Belfast in 2001 (Éıre Nua) and urged voters to “spoil your vote” – see the posters on the wall; also Bennie et al p. 59).
In 2014 he would be killed after his expulsion from CIRA – see RIP Vol Tommy Crossan.
Divis Street, west Belfast
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Repainted version of Ban Plastic Bullets. At 25 metres long, the mural presents to scale the distances at which the fourteen victims (seven adults, seven children) of plastic bullets were shot. CAIN has a list of the fourteen.
“We recommend the abolition of the use of plastic bullets – United Nations Committee Against Torture, 28 November, 1998”; “A new more lethal plastic bullet will be issued to the RUC on June 1st – It will be [??] deadly at a range of 30 metres – All plastic bullet fatalities have occurred at a range of less than 30 metres.”
Divis Street, Belfast
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Peter Mandelson served as NI Secretary from October 1999 (replacing Mo Mowlam) to January 2001. As such, he oversaw the creation of the Assembly and of the PSNI. His departure (on 2001-01-24) is greeted with celebration and song – “Slán Abhaıle”.
Divis Street, Belfast
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“Merry Christmas & a happy new year to the Castlerea Five from the people of Belfast.” The Castlerea Five were five republican prisoners not released in 2000 (under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement) (An Phoblacht). They were jailed in Roscommon for involvement in the killing of Garda Jerry McCabe in 1996 (four of manslaughter, one of conspiracy to rob). Divis Street, Belfast
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The “old model” RUC is a combination of policeman, Orangeman, and (loyalist) paramilitary, affiliations the “new model” lacks.
Divis Street, Belfast
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The Ógra Shınn Féın (Sınn Féın Youth) logo is a Molotov cocktail with an Easter lily as a fuse. Divis Street, Belfast
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The mural shows people being hanged, speared, and drawn behind a horse, and houses in flames.” The persecution of the Protestant people by the church of Rome, 1600 – the ethnic cleansing still goes on today.”
Hopewell Crescent, lower Shankill, Belfast.
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This is half of a mural in Shiels St, Belfast. (The other half is around the corner to the right and is visible in this 2001 post.) This wall features Che (on the corner) and Fidel (in the poster above the three gentlemen) and other scenes from Cuba.
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“Britain’s genocide by starvation”, “Ireland’s holocaust 1845-1849”, “Over 1,500,000 deaths”. Completed version of the Great Hunger mural on the Whiterock Road, Belfast, previously seen twice in development: 1995 | 1997. The images used are from Illustrated London Newses of the time (see the Visual History page on an gorta mór).
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