“Beechmount Provoland” and “Victory to the PIRA” graffiti in Beechmount Avenue, Belfast.
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Beechmount Provoland
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Stad Maggie Anoıs
A hand with tricoloured cuff attempts to stop one with a Union flag from taking the six counties from the rest of the island. The plural imperative would be “stadaıgí”.
The image was used (in the 70s? and 80s?) in the United States for fundraising (MOMA | Fb | Etsy).
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast. See also the same idea in Strabane: England Get Out Of Ireland.
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RUC Scum
Another (see Bass Irish Cup) jeering ‘football score’ graffiti on the attack on an RUC station in Newry, this time in Beechmount Avenue, Belfast,
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For A New Ireland
Voting for Sınn Féın is seen as the way to address the social issues named on placards carried by protestors – culture, houses, Brits Out, jobs – in order to bring about a new Ireland.
Beechmount/RPG Avenue, Beechmount, west Belfast
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Tell The World, Freedom Is At Hand
The death by hanging of African National Congress supporter Benjamin Moloise on 18 October, 1985, for the alleged murder of a South African policeman, drew international condemnation and led to widespread rioting in Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth. (ExecutedToday | Jet) His words, “tell the world, freedom is at hand”, are paired with a phrase from Bobby Sands, “we aim to be free”, in this ANC-IRA mural featuring an armalite and a zulu shield and spear. In the second and third images the boards (above the mural) declaring west Belfast an “apartheid free zone”/”ceantar saor ó apartheıd” can be seen.
“Beır bua” [seize victory]; “erected by Sınn Féın April 1986”
Ascaıll Ard Na bhFeá/Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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Say Yes
Two similar graffiti from Central Drive, Creggan, Derry: “Ulster says No but … the man from Del Monte says Yes/the queen says Yes.” Also, “The last supper Newry”?
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IRA (P)
Six of the hunger-strikers are named and their paramilitary associations given: B. Sands (PIRA), R. McCreesh (PIRA), J. McDonnell (PIRA), F. Hughes (PIRA), P. O’Hara (INLA), M. Hurson (PIRA).
Blucher Street, Derry.
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RUC Pigs
An unhappy pig wearing a police cap in Hawkin Street, Londonderry.
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INLA OK
Lots of “INLA”s in Glenfada Park, Derry, with a starry plough in the background.
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Roll Of Honour
This is a black-and-white, English-language, version of a ‘roll of honour’, with names in Celtic script, mural that would quickly be redone (see I gCuimhne Agus In Onóir). The graffiti underneath read Maggie Lured Hurd To Be A Turd. There is also graffiti on the low wall: “All the queens horses and [all the queens men] couldn’t catch the IRA in [London again]”. Kells Walk/Rossville Street, Derry
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