Belfast’s Whiterock Road is renamed Bóthar Roıbeaırd Uí Sheachnasaıgh [“Ua Seachnasaıgh”?] or, in the top image, “bother Bobby Sands”.
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Bóthar Bobby Sands
Bobby Sands
Our Laughter Will Be The Joy Of Victory
“Our laughter will be the joy of our victory + [the] joy of the people; our revenge will be the liberation of all.” This is perhaps the only appearance of this quote from Bobby Sands’s hunger strike diary, from Thursday March 12th. In the background are the towers of Long Kesh; in the foreground is Sands’s funeral procession.
Gardenmore Road, Dunmurry/Belfast
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Everyone, Republican Or Otherwise
A portrait and the words of Bobby Sands, near his Twinbrook home. “Everyone, republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play.” [Diary, March 14th, 1981]
Laburnum Way/Summerhill Rd, Twinbrook, Dunmurry
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Hunger Strike 81
Here are two images of a variety of small boards in Gardenmore Road/Laburnum Way, Twinbrook, including three about the RUC, a tricoloured H-shaped board with ten crosses, and a portrait of Bobby Sands who lived in the building that the boards are on. (The portrait and the items in the second image date back to at least 1996. See C01012 and C01007.)
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Our Revenge Will Be The Laughter Of Our Children
Here is a 2002 image of the colourful Bobby Sands mural Sevastopol Street, Belfast. For lots more info, see the original post on this mural.
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Support The Turkish Hunger Strike
Zehra Kulaksiz was one of 816 prisoners who went on hunger strike to protest conditions in “F-type”. Her sister Canan died two weeks before she died and 122 people in total, both inside and outside the prisons. (Guardian | WP | BBC News video)
On the International Wall (Visual History), Divis Street, west Belfast
See previously: F-Block Martyrs
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Bobby Sands
A portrait of 1981 hunger striker Bobby Sands with a slightly grimacing smile.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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God Bless Bobby Sands
Bobby Sands was IRA commanding officer in Long Kesh/Maze and lead 1981 hunger-striker, dying on May 5th, 1981.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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Spirit Of Freedom
Two faded and damaged murals side-by-side in Carnagat Road, Newry. On the left, a lark exhibiting the “spirit of freedom – B Sands” carries an assault rifle; on the left the torch of freedom is raised in front of the Sunburst and Tricolour.
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Ulster, Leinster, Connacht
Shields of three of the four provinces on light poles in Westland Street, Derry, augmented with “RIRA”, “Celtic”, “RIP Bobby Sands” and Tricolours and Sunburst.
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