Two images of a mural for the 75th anniversary of the Easter Rising (éirí amach na Casca 1916-1991) by Mo Chara Kelly, who recreates a piece by Robert Ballagh showing the signatories of the Proclamation (and Countess Markievicz) with raised fists (included below). A phoenix is added, above. Glenalina Road/Whiterock Road, Belfast.
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Memorial to Bobby Sands, with phoenix above (painted by Mo Chara Kelly) in Jasmine Way/Juniper Park, Twinbrook, next to Sands’s home. Two volunteers in reflective pose would later be added by local youths.
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1991 image of the Free Ireland mural on Beechmount Avenue (RPG Avenue), Belfast, with two shots of the side wall. At the top, a stencilled board reads “Release Mark Prior, Liam Coogan, Jim McCabe, Kev Mulholland – these boys are innocent.” (The “Beechmount Five”. See Greenleft News) At the bottom, Pearse’s famous lines “The fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”
For a close-up of the IRA plaque, see 1990’s Free Ireland.
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Women of the world stand up against oppression, with the symbol for ‘female’ containing a globe. On the Falls Road/Linden Street.
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The words “Bobby Sands” still visible on a wall somewhere on the Falls Road, Belfast.
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“IRA” with a shamrock. Falls Road, Belfast.
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A phoenix rises out of a Celtic cross wrapped in the Tricolour. “This monument was erected by the republican people of greater Ballymurphy in proud and loving memory of all those volunteers from the area who gave their lives in the fight for Irish freedom. Unveiled by Gerry Adams 12th May 1985. I ndil cuimhne [chuimhne] i gcónai ag na poblachtánaigh ón cheantar Barr Cluanai. Also in memory of the civilians who died at the hands of the British Army, RUC, UDR and loyalist extremists.”
Glenalina Road, Ballymurphy, west Belfast
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“RUC beware: the IRA have had their “Weetabix””. Springhill Avenue, Belfast. An INLA version of the advertising campaign appeared in Ballycolman, Strabane.
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Republican graffiti in Glenalina Road, Belfast. Get in touch if you know if it has any specific reference.
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1990 image of the Gibraltar 3 mural in Stanhope Street, Belfast, including a flag of the province of Ulster.
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