Almost all political prisoners, both republican and loyalist, had been released, under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, by July 28th, 2000. The mural above shows the huts of Long Kesh and the H-blocks of the Maze.
Hopewell Crescent, lower Shankill, west Belfast
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UDA west Belfast C Coy (Adair’s company) mural in Downing Street, Belfast.
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UDA/UYM insignia and volunteers with sunglasses on the Shankill Road, Belfast. Bridgeton is a neighbourhood on the edge of Glasgow, Scotland, home to the Bridgeton flute band (Fb) and headquarters of the Grand Orange Lodge Of Scotland.
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“Release east Belfast’s loyalist prisoners”. This mural of Maze/Long Kesh watchtowers and barbed wire dates back to at least 1997, during the peace process.
Harvey Court, east Belfast
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“We are the pilgrims, master – we shall go always a little further” is a line from James Elroy Flecker’s verse poem Hassan and is inscribed on the clock tower of the the Hereford barracks of the SAS (WP). It is used here by “East Belfast Ulster Volunteer Force – The People’s Army”.
Tamar Street, east Belfast
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Three figureheads of the Protestant Reformation: Martin Lurther 1483-1546, John Calvin 1509-1564, and John Wesley 1703-1791.
Major Street, east Belfast
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RMS Titanic makes its first appearance in a mural, on Dee Street, Belfast. The “unsinkable” ship, built in east Belfast at Harland & Wolff shipyards (shown in the skyline of the mural), hit an iceberg and foundered on the night of 14-15th April, 1912, killing approximately 1,500 people.
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Vintage nail-up in Beechmount Avenue, Belfast.
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Real IRA graffiti in the Lecky Road, Derry, underpass: “Political status now”, “Hoods beware – RIRA”, “Nationalists Defence Army”.
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The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade is the military wing of Palestinian party Fatah, which was led by Yasser Arafat until his death in 2004. Fatah was the largest faction of the PLO (on the left). On the right is Basque militant group ETA. “FTH” is “f*ck the huns”.
Lecky Road, Derry
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