1991 image of Mandela Father Of Freedom (1988 | 1989) in Leeson Street, Belfast. The mural has faded somewhat and the words “Happy birthday, Comrade” in the lower left have been blackened out.
Memorial to Bobby Sands, with phoenix above (painted by Mo Chara Kelly) in Jasmine Way/Juniper Park, Twinbrook, next to Sands’s home. Two volunteers in reflective pose would later be added by local youths.
1991 image of the Free Ireland mural on Beechmount Avenue (RPG Avenue), Belfast, with two shots of the side wall. At the top, a stencilled board reads “Release Mark Prior, Liam Coogan, Jim McCabe, Kev Mulholland – these boys are innocent.” (The “Beechmount Five”. See Greenleft News) At the bottom, Pearse’s famous lines “The fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”
For a close-up of the IRA plaque, see 1990’s Free Ireland.
Portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers are combined in a gallery on Lecky Road, Derry, next to a call to march in the Celebration Of Resistance in Belfast on Sunday August 11th. If you recognize the artist, please get in touch.
A reference to one of the Israeli-occupied territories. With “IRA” and “BRY” (Bogside Republican Youth) graffiti. The plaque in the centre is the memorial to Charles Love.
“In memory of Charles Love, accidentally killed on 28th January 1990. Unveiled by his father Patrick. Erected by the Bloody Sunday Initiative 27th January 1991. Padre Pio pray for him.” Love was 17 years old when he was hit by flying masonry from an IRA bomb. Fahan Street/Rossville Street, Derry. The lettering from RUC Keep Out is still faintly visible.