Women from around the world, including Palestine, are represented in this mural in Unity flats, Belfast. Here’s Christy Moore’s recording of the Michael MacConnell song Only Our Rivers Run Free.
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1990 image showing a damaged version of Mo Chara’s Oppose Censorship opposite St Thomas’s school on the Whiterock Road, Belfast
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Núada of the Tuatha Dé Danann and Morrígan (from Jim Fitzpatrick’s Beneath The Sky Of Stars) embrace below a ram (from Fitzpatrick’s Senach The Spectre) and between Celtic creatures inspired by the Book Of Kells.
(This is probably not the “dragon mural” mentioned by Julian Watson in Circa #8.)
Unity flats, west Belfast
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Here is another instance of the ‘masked skull’ design produced by prisoners in Long Kesh (according to Mo Chara Kelly), seen previously in Britains Death Squads. This version is simpler: it does not have any writing and there is no UDR emblem on the UDA-style hat. Beechmount Avenue, Belfast.
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Painted in 1989 and badly damaged by 1990: Britain’s death squads: UDA and UVF behind the sunglasses and mask on one side, the UDR and RUC on the other, with clothing and skin stripped away, and the British Army at the bottom. To the left of shot is Dagda and to the right Union Jack Crumbling.
Painted by Mo Chara Kelly in Springhill Avenue, west Belfast.
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Leonard Peltier is serving two life sentences for the deaths of FBI agents in a shootout in Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (WP). Amnesty International describes his trial as “unfair”. “Framed by the FBI”. AIM is American Indian Movement and the four colours are the colours of man.
Mural by Mo Chara Kelly and Bob Kelly in Springhill Avenue, Belfast.
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In the myth of the Tuatha Dé Danann, Dagda took over the kingship when Nuada was injured. Dagda is in the centre of the (unfinished) mural above, smiting the soldier in the bottom right. Here is the Jim Fitzpatrick original, from 1977.
By Mo Chara Kelly in Springhill Avenue, Belfast
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“Twenty years – onward to victory”. 1969 to 1989 perhaps. Somewhere on the Falls Road, Belfast
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“Stop extradition – support Dessie Ellis – don’t let him die on hungerstrike”. Mural by Marty Morris on the Whiterock Road, Belfast, showing a male Justice and a prisoner both in celtic style. For some background, see Don’t Hand Him Over.
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Now-TD Dessie Ellis went on hunger strike in October 1990 in protest against the threat of extradition from the Republic to the North. The poster shown above is outside the Sınn Féın offices/art shop. (See previously the office in 1981 and in 1987.)
Falls Road, west Belfast
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