National Hunger Strike Commemoration. Remember the hunger strikers. Tír Eoghaın 2009. Blackflag and torchlight presentation, Anne Street, Dungannon. Main commemoration Galbally community centre.” Placed temporarily on top of Sınn Féın – The Winning Way. The same board was hung in Chapel Road, Dungiven.
Bridge Street, Strabane
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Sınn Féın board off Bridge Street, Strabane, heading west.
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IRA in the colours of the Tricolour, on Bradley Way, Strabane, just north of Bridge Street.
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The players of Scottish soccer team Glasgow Celtic are shown ‘doing the huddle’ on the side of the Bowling Green pub in Main Street, Strabane (An Srath Bán). The red-and-white flag is the flag of county Derry.
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“I ndíl [ndıl] chu[ı]mhne – in proud memory of Vol. Ma[ı]réad Farrell, Vol. Dan McCann, Vol Sean Savage, GHQ staff Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann who were executed in Gibraltar on March 6th 1988.” Twentieth-anniversary portraits of the Gibraltar 3 in Meetinghouse Street, Strabane.
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Gravestones to brothers Michael, David, and Hugh Devine, to Charles Breslin, who died alongside Michael and David, to “all those who gave their lives” – “Go luí cré ársa Thír Eoghaın go héadrom ar uıgheanna ár laochraı uaısle” [May the ancient Tyrone clay lie lightly on the graves of our noble warriors]; this headstone is featured in a Fountain Street mural – and Danny McCauley – “Where there is a struggle for justice, the desire for freedom and resistance to exploitation, there will always be a Danny McCauley.”
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Updated version of the monument to West Tyrone Command (seen in 2005) – perhaps with new fencing. A modern volunteer stands on the left, Cú Chulaınn on the right. “In proud memory of Vol. Charles Breslin age 20, Vol. Michael Devine age 22, Vol. David Devine age 16. West Tyrone command, Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann. Killed by crown forces near this spot 23 Feb. 1985.” The three were killed in an alleged shoot-to-kill incident. Obituaries in An Phoblacht.
Fountain Street, Strabane
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2008 image of the vintage (1987) GPO piece in Courtrai Park, Strabane, seen previously in 2002.
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The Strabane republican ex-prisoners centre is in Melvin Road, Strabane, next to the Sınn Féın office.
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