The Starry Plough is the emblem of the INLA/IRSP. “The Green Leprechauns” are entirely unknown – please get in touch if you have any information. Beechmount Pass, Belfast
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The flags of Ireland, the Basque Country, and an unknown flag – blue, white, and blue vertical stripes with a sun/flower design on a dark blue square or diamond. (Please get in touch if you recognize it.) Beechmount Pass, Belfast.
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Irish peasants board a ship for North America to escape the Great Hunger.
Oakman Street, Belfast
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“Disband the RUC”, “RUC Out” and “Up the IRA” graffiti in Beechmount Pass, Belfast.
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“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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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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“[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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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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Londoner Stephen Lawrence was murdered by stabbing in 1993 and, although arrests were made, no charges were brought. A 1998 public inquiry found that the Metropolitan Police Service was “institutionally racist”. In 2012, two of the original suspects were found guilty of the murder (WP). Catholic Robert Hamill was beaten to death by loyalists in Portadown in 1997 while police in an RUC land-rover looked on (WP). The second image is of a fist smashing a swastika: “Stand firm – break the bigots [sic] back” on top of a Drumcree stand-off mural (which will become visible again in later years).
Artana Street, lower Ormeau, south Belfast
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Graffiti on the side of the Falls library, perhaps relating to the May 30th, 1996 Forum elections.
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