“Disband the RUC”, “RUC Out” and “Up the IRA” graffiti in Beechmount Pass, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
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Disband The RUC
Belfast west
Our Class Is The Working Class
“Our flag is the starry plough, our class is the working class, our enemy is foreign imperialism and native capitalism.” IRSP board on the front railings of Costello House.
Falls Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
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Forced Upon Us
Forced Upon Us is a play about the history of the RUC, paralleling the foundation of the state in 1922 to the situation in the 1990s. It was put on at Theatre On The Rock (St Thomas’s school on the Whiterock Road) by DubbelJoint and JustUs, written by Brenda Murphy and Christine Poland, and directed by Pam Brighton (IrishPlayography).
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
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Trimble Will Tremble
“[First Minister and UUP leader David] Trimble will tremble when Ireland reassembles” and “Support the people of the Garvaghy Road” (and “Tiocfaidh ár lá”) on Whiterock Road, Belfast
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Upper Springfield Development Trust
1999 image of the Upper Springfield Development Trust (formed in 1993 from the Upper Springfield Forum) mural on the Whiterock Road, Belfast, now with a large vent unfortunately sticking out of the middle of it. “Mol an óıge agus tıocfaıdh sí”. (Praise youth and it will flourish.)
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
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Use Your Brain Vote Sınn Féın
Graffiti on the side of the Falls library, perhaps relating to the May 30th, 1996 Forum elections.
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Everyone, Republican Or Otherwise
1998 version of the Bobby Sands mural in Sevastopol Street, Belfast, previously seen in 1995, on the side of the Sınn Féın offices, advertising An Phoblacht/Republican News.
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Ireland Ribbon
Two images from the Sinn Fein [sic – Sınn Féın] office on the Falls Road, Belfast. A dove (inside a braided circle) carries a tricoloured ribbon. To the right is a list of prisoners, seen previously in 1995’s Sınn Féın Peace Action Monitor.
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UN Day For The Eradication Of Poverty
October 17th, each year, is the United Nations’ International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The mural shown above states that “12 of the 16 most deprived wards in Belfast are in W. Belfast”. Mural by Andrea Redmond and Margaret McCann in Dunlewey Street, Belfast, sponsored by W. Belfast Economic Forum and the Falls Women’s Centre, showing children of the world under a rainbow and between a dolmen and a ?parrot?. For close-ups see this 2015 post on Extramural Activity.
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Tıocfaıdh Ár Lá “Trimble”
A message for UUP leader David Trimble, with extra fadas. Dunlewey Street, Belfast.
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