Patrick Pearse urges Bogside passers-by to “Sign the petition” for “One Ireland, One Vote” (Pensive Quill) from the 1916societies.com [1916societies.ie]
Rossville Street, Derry
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Englishman Clive Dutton was an urban planner who was best known for work in Birmingham, London (Newham), and Belfast. He produced “The Dutton Report” (pdf) in 2004 and “The Big Plan” (pdf) (the cover of which is pictured in the mural) in 2013. In them, he proposed and then updated a plan to tackle economic deprivation in west Belfast by the creation of a ‘Gaeltacht Quarter’ or ‘Ceathrú Gaeltachta’. He died on June 8th at the age of 62 and the mural above has been painted in remembrance.
The photograph of Durron reproduced here can be seen at The Guardian. Dutton’s “Big Plan” was celebrated with a mural featured previously.
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forbaırt feırste ar aghaıdh lınn onwards 1953-2015
“RNU call for the release of Leonard Peltier – http://www.freeleonard.org“. The lower left-hand panel of the RNU spot on Northumberland Street is serving as a changeable notice-board – it was previously The Popular Front.
Peltier has been in jail since 1977, convicted of killing two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975 and sentenced to two life-sentences (WP).
Northumberland Street, west Belfast
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“Cogús” (Fb) or “conscience” is the prisoners’ welfare arm of the Republican Network For Unity (RNU).
The RNU web address along the bottom of both pieces no longer appears to function (Wayback); the organisation does have a Facebook page.
Rossville Street, Derry
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“Éamonn Ceannt quote, Kilmainham Jail 1916. “I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice: never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy but to fight to a finish.” East Tyrone remembers.”
This is a 1916 Societies (.ie) placard on the disused barracks in Plater’s Hill/Lineside Coalisland Plater’s Hill, Coalisland. See previously: Never Treat With The Enemy.
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These republican graffiti (and one 1916 Societies board) come from Creggan, Derry. From top to bottom: “UK no way”, “Join police, face death”, “PSNI/RUC not welcome”, “Join [New] IRA”.
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“Iarsmalann Na Staire Poblachtach Éireannach – Eileen Hickey Irish Republican History Museum” is across the street (behind the Conway Mill) from this mural. Eileen Hickey was a Provisional IRA member who served time in Armagh prison; she died in 2006, one year before the opening of the museum (obituary at An Phoblacht).
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Fleadh Cheoıl Na hÉıreann is held in the north for the first time with the 62nd fleadh being held in Derry from August 11th to 18th (BBC). Free Derry Corner is decorated with the symbols of the festival and Comhaltas and the event’s web address. Programme.
Along the bottom can be faintly seen “Culture theft ££”.
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Martin Corey was found guilty of the murder of two policemen in 1973 and released in 1992. As noted in the tarp — “interned in Maghaberry prison since April 2010” — he was returned to prison in 2010, and a 2011 commission ruled that he was a member of the CIRA (WP). An appeal – on the grounds that evidence had been withheld – was rejected in December, 2012. The campaign for his release continues in republican areas:
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Brompton Park, Belfast [M10132]
Rossville Street, Derry M10195 (replacing Marian Price)
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The fence of the disused barracks in Plater’s Hill/Lineside Coalisland, makes for an impromptu notice-board. Alongside ads for “youth day” and a “fitness club” we say an international women’s day placard featuring Marian Price and a 1916 Societies tarp using an Éamonn Ceannt quote from Kilmainham jail 1916: “I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice, never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy, but to fight to a finish.”
“Free Marian Price”, “End controlled movement”, “End forced strip searches”, “Support republican POWs” and “End British internment”.
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