Anti-police service graffiti from the Real IRA in Lecky Road, Derry.
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Kill All PSNI Officers Now
CNR
NDA – RIRA
The abbreviation “NDA” stands for “Nationalists Defence Army” a group of which there is no record apart from Derry graffiti. The ribbon and the “14” in the centre stand for the victims of Bloody Sunday.
Lecky Road, Derry
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Roll Of Honour
The roll of honour, seen unfinished in 2003, is completed with colour and the flags of IRA and INLA.
Lecky Road, Derry.
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IRA
A simple Tricolour with the letters “IRA”.
Lecky Road, Derry
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Vol. Kieran Doherty TD
Kieran Doherty was elected TD (Teachta Dála) for Cavan-Monaghan three weeks into his 1981 hunger strike. He held the position for two months, until he died on August 2nd. The portraits, plaques, and mural of marchers are in his home area of Andersonstown. The words “It is not those who inflict the most, but those that can endure who shall conquer in the end” are an echo of Terence MacSwiney, whose hunger strike in 1920 lasted 74 days, one more than Doherty’s.
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Slemish Way, Andersonstown, west Belfast
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Penal Days
25 pounds is offered as the bounty for a priest, the same as for a wolf. The priest is conducting a Catholic mass but clergy were banned from Ireland under the 1652 Act Of Settlement, the Penal Laws (Na Péındlíthe).
South Link, Andersonstown, west Belfast
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They Were Faithful And They Fought
Two images from the memorial garden in South Link, Andersonstown, Belfast to volunteers from the First Belfast Brigade (céad cathlán den Briogáid Bheal Feirste), members of the “republican movement” and “the civilians who died at the hands of the British Army, RUC, UDR, and loyalist extremists”.
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IRA
Painted “IRA” marking on an electrical box in South Link, Andersonstown, Belfast, perhaps the Continuity IRA (CIRA).
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It Is New Strung And Shall Be Heard
Andrea Redmond painted this mural in South Link, Andersonstown, Belfast, for the 200th anniversary of the 1798 rebellion by Na hÉıreannaıgh Aontaıthe (the United Irishmen). This style of harp is called a Maid Of Erin harp.
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Easter 1916
Side by side in Brandywell Road, Derry: the Easter lily (with “IRA” on one of the flags) and “disband the RUC”.
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