“Easter Sunday Commemoration March. Assemble 2.30 PM Westland Street”. On the rear of Free Derry Corner.
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Easter Sunday Commemoration
Easter Rising
Easter Commemoration
“Easter [1916] commemoration. Easter Sunday. Assemble at Beechmount Ave 1 pm.” On the “H” at the top of Springfield Road/Monagh Bypass.
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Easter Commemoration
“Easter commemoration Sun. 12th April. Assemble Beechmount Ave 1 pm. Parade leaves 1.30 sharp. Organised by the National Graves Assoc.”
The image on the left is of an Irish Volunteer outside the Dublin GPO in 1916.
Falls Road/Glen Road, Belfast
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Fıanna Éıreann 1909-2009
“Fuaır sıad bás ar son saoırse na hÉıreann” [they died for the freedom of Ireland]. Na Fıanna Éıreann [warriors of Ireland; IRA youth] were begun in 1909 by Countess Markievicz and Belfast man Bulmer Hobson (WP). They took part in the Easter Rising of 1916. The role of honour lists deaths from 1969 to 1984 – the Troubles. After the Agreement, the Fıanna are affiliated with Republican Sınn Féın and the Continuity IRA. At the corner of Beechmount Avenue and the Falls Road – see the Visual History of this wall.
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Éırí Amach Na Cásca
The Éırí Amach Na Cásca 1916 [Easter Rising 1916] mural in Beechmount Avenue/Ascaıll Ard Na bhFeá/RPG Avenue is repainted (by DD and Seany McVeigh) due to the new doorway. Compare to the previous version. (See also the IRA plaque.)
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1916
2008 image of the vintage (1987) GPO piece in Courtrai Park, Strabane, seen previously in 2002.
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Easter Parade
A call in Twinbrook to march in the 2008 Easter [Rising] Parade. “Assemble 1.00 pm Beechmount Avenue, Sunday 23rd March 08. Wear an Easter lily. Support the march. Join Sinn Féin”.
Off Stewartstown Road, Belfast
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Beechmount Óglaıgh
The memorial garden in Beechmount Avenue, Belfast, goes beyond commemoration of IRA volunteers. Moving clockwise: dying volunteer, “local men and women and POWs”, hunger strikers, comhaltaí Shınn Féın, proclamation, na hÓglaıgh, “innocent people from the area”, “the unsung heroes off [sic] this area”, Sands quote.
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GPO Dublin 1916
2008 image of 2002’s Easter Rising mural in Berwick Road, Belfast.
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ETA – RIRA
These hand-drawn BRY/RIRA murals are a montage of many traditional republican symbols, such as Celtic FC, the Easter lily, Bobby Sands, an assault rifle, the Tricolour and a crude island of Ireland. Plus support for Basque separatists ETA. “CRF” = “Catholic Reaction Force”?
Dove Gardens, Derry
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