“Disband RUC” and a small “No RUC” road sign and Easter lily, above a large Tricolour and a “green ribbon” list of “Local Republican POWs”: Mickey Duff, Stephen Jameson, Desmond Madden, Gerard, Mateer, Kevin McShane, George Mervyn, Scott Monaghan, Ciaran Morrison, Thomas O’Dwyer, Noel Cosgrove, Mark Skillen, Ciaran SMyth, Christopher Walsh, Ciaran Collins, Patrick Ireland, Michaal Duffy.
Falls Road, Belfast
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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1995 images of the Celtic-Disney mash-up on the Falls Road, Belfast. (Seen previously in 1993)
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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Extended graffiti on the wall below Beechmount Leisure Centre about the release of British soldier Lee Clegg, convicted to life in prison for the killing of a joyrider. “Clegg out why? Keep Clegg, give us freedom! 1 out, all out. Two-tier Brit justice. POW out now.”
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Sketch for a Tuatha Dé Danann mural in Rockdale Street, Belfast. If you can confirm that the mural was ever finished, please get in touch.
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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At the end of 1995, US Senator George Mitchell was working on his six principles concerning the move to peace and the decommissioning of arms. (Clinton visited in November, 1995.) This is presumably the reference to “arms”. The reference to “tie” is obscure – perhaps to tying weapons to their sheaths so that they cannot be quickly drawn.
“Disband RUC” is underneath.
Rockmore Road, west Belfast
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Portraits of seven of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers, along with their dates of death and ages, in Rockmore Road, Belfast: Sand, Hughes, McCreesh, O’Hara, McDonnell, Hurson, and Lynch. Missing are McElwee, Doherty, and Devine.
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3 boards outside the IRSP offices on the Falls Road: “Saoırse” (freedom) – represented by a dove (or perhaps a lark) carrying keys through barbed wire – for all republican prisoners. Tony O’Neill, Marty McCartney, Sean Adams, Cathil Fox, Paul Norney, Daniel Rooney, Rory Dougan, Sean Kelly, Pat Sheehan, James Morgan, Fra Hamilton, Bernard Fox, Kevin Cosgrove, Gerry McDonnell
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Stencil outside the Rock Bar on the Falls Road, west Belfast.
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In Irish mythology, the children of Lear were turned into singing swans for 900 years by their step-mother Aoıfe. They are then restored to human form but, being 900 years old, die immediately.
Painted at “Cáısc 1995” by “Síle-na-gıg”.
Rockville Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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Part stencil, part painted slogan at the top of St James Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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