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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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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The Sinn Féin offices in Turf Lodge are named “Constance Markievicz House” after the artist, suffragette, republican revolutionary, first woman elected to the British parliament, anti-Treaty fighter, and hunger striker.
Monagh Crescent, Belfast
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The subject for the fifth mural by The Bogside Artists is Annette McGavigan, the first child to be killed by British forces in the Troubles, in 1971. The mural (see M01421) would be launched in September.
Rossville Street, Derry.
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The Battle of the Bogside took place in August 1996. The board above (on the rear of Free Derry Corner) commemorates its 30th anniversary. Rossville flats are shown on the left of the image. Lecky Road, Derry
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“SS RUC” and “RUC bigots”.
unknown street, (Foylehill/Kildrum?), Derry
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Day 371 of the “siege” of the residents of Garvaghy Road, Portadown. The siege began when the newly-formed Parades Commission decided to ban the Orange march in 1998 and 2,000 police and soldiers enforced the ruling by barricading the road off. Rossville Street, Derry, with Free Derry Corner and The Petrol Bomber in the background.
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