“Stand firm – break the bigots back” – a fist smashes a Nazi swastika. Next to the Stephen Lawrence – Robert Hammil board. For both boards in better condition, see Same Story, Same Bigotry. Artana Street, Belfast.
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Twentieth anniversary retrospective board on Ormeau Road, Belfast, with posters and news articles from the 1981 hunger strike, as well as the names of the ten who died.
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“In memory of their victims … they shall not pass.” An elaborate celtic cross in memory (i ndil cuimhne) of Troubles victims from Catholic south Belfast and a promise to block Orange Order parades in the lower Ormeau.
Farnham Street, south Belfast
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No Orange parades in Dromara Street, Belfast, just off south Belfast’s Ormeau Road. Seen previously in 1997.
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Both local elections and Westminster elections were held on June 7th 2001. The first three names are of local council areas and the vote is by preference (hence the “1”), ‘South Belfast’ is a Westminster seat. Sınn Féın took one seat in each of Balmoral and Laganbank.
Dromara Street, south Belfast
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An advertising hoarding on Cromac Street is painted over with a Tricolour for the 2001 (local) election. Alex Maskey stood successfully in the Laganbank ward (WP).
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A fortune teller foresees an Irish News headline in her crystal ball: “RUC disbanded – New community police force established”.
Market Street, south Belfast
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2001 image of the masked volunteers previously seen in 1997 in Lower Stanfield Street. It is extremely unusual for a (republican) “hooded gunman” mural to survive to this date. We conjectured in the earlier post that the creation of the mural dates to the period between the ceasefires.
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IRA 3rd battation volunteers Joseph Downey, Brendan Davison, and Tony Nolan are commemorated with a mural of a firing party and the crests of the four provinces.
Lower Stanfield Street, south Belfast
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For the twentieth anniversary of the hunger strikes (1981-2001), a large H with portraits of the ten deceased strikers, plus Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg.
Springfield Road, west Belfast
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