Theses are two vintage pieces from Lenadoon (Creeslough Park and Kerrygeel Gardens): “I”, “R”, and “A” on separate boards, and “H-Block” graffiti on a gable wall.
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Those Who Hungered For Justice
“In memory of those who hungered for justice 1981-2001: Bobby Sands, Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh, Patsy O’Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty, Tom McElwee, Mickey Devine.”
Glenwood Court, west Belfast
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Hunger-Strike March & Rally
A mural painter puts the finishing touches to a call to a “Hunger-Strike March & Rally Sun 17th Aug. For bus details contact S[ınn] F[éın]”.
Falls Road/Glen Road, Belfast
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Hunger Strikers Mosaics
Originally mounted for the 25th anniversary of the (1981) strike in 2006, the hunger striker mosaics were still in place in 2008.
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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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Hunger Strikers
Two volunteers in sunglasses fire a funeral volley over the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers.
Lecky Road, Derry
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The Five Demands
At the centre of the hunger strikers iron-work on the site of the (former) Andersonstown RUC barracks is a lark in barbed wire; the barbed wire, however, contains the five demands: no prison uniform, no prison work, free association, visits and parcels, and full remission.
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Volunteers From The New Barnsley Area
The New Barnsley memorial garden is greatly expanded over the single plaque from 2005, to include a larger main plaque, a smaller one commemorating early resistance “Sheas sıad le chéıle” [They stood together], and wrought-iron gates with a phoenix and “Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann”.
Update: painted gates in 2015:
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Years From Now They Will Ask You
“Years from now they will ask you where you were when your comrades were dying on hungerstrike. Shall you say you were with us or shall you say that you were conforming to the very system that drove us to our deaths[?]” INLA (sign the light-pole as well as the flags and red star in the mural) volunteer Patsy O’Hara, from Derry, joined the hunger strike on the same day as Raymond McCreesh (March 22nd) and died, 61 days later, later in the same day (May 21st, 11:29 p.m.) as him (2:11 a.m.).
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New Lodge Houses
Three hunger strikers (all three from 1981) – Kevin Lynch, Tom McElwee, Mickey Devine – on the tops of three ‘houses’ in the New Lodge. For a complete list of strikers and houses, see New Lodge Flats.
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