Although the centre says “1981 – 2006” Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg are included alongside the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers.
An identical board was hung in Garron Road, Glenariff [M02834].
Ramoan Road, Ballycastle.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2006 Peter Moloney
M02816 [M02817] [M02818] [M02819] [M02820] [M02821] [M02822] [M02823] [M02824] [M02825] [M02826] [M02827] [M02828] [M02829] [M02830] [M02831]
IRA volunteer Michael Gaughan died in Parkhurst prison in 1974 after 64 days on hunger strike (staılc ocraıs). He was force-fed seventeen times during the strike and his family alleged that he died from food stuck in a punctured lung. The practice was ended after Gaughan’s death.
Frank Stagg was on the Parkhurst hunger strike with Gaughan, and another in Long Lartin prison, and a third in Wakefield in December 1975. He died after 62 days on February 12th, 1976.
Gaughan’s coffin was draped with the Tricolour used to bury Terence McSwiney in 1920, whose famous quote is at the top of the board: “It is not those who can inflict the most but those who can endure the most who will achieve ultimate victory.”
Falls Road, west Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2006 Peter Moloney
M02748
Three green “H”s on the Falls Road, Belfast (at the top of Donegall Road) encouraging remembrance of the two hunger strikes, in 1980 and 1981.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2006 Peter Moloney
M02747
Moyard Parade, Belfast is renamed Bóthar Mháırtín Hurson/Martin Hurson Road in honour of the deceased 1981 hunger striker, who died after 46 days due to being unable to retain water. His street-sign is given an óglaıgh na hÉıreann border.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2005 Peter Moloney
M02544
Ballymurphy Road, Belfast, is unofficially renamed after the third 1981 hunger striker: “Raymond McCreesh Road/Bóthar Réamann Mhıc Raoıs”.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
M02237
20th anniversary tarp on the side of the Falls Road Library, Belfast. Originally an 8 x 8 canvas, from which a 30 x 30 tarp was printed and hung in Harlem (see J0886) and this 20 x 20 version printed and brought to Belfast. For info on the faces in the corners, see the 2002 post.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
M02225
The roll of honour, seen unfinished in 2003, is completed with colour and the flags of IRA and INLA.
Lecky Road, Derry.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
M02197
Kieran Doherty was elected TD (Teachta Dála) for Cavan-Monaghan three weeks into his 1981 hunger strike. He held the position for two months, until he died on August 2nd. The portraits, plaques, and mural of marchers are in his home area of Andersonstown. The words “It is not those who inflict the most, but those that can endure who shall conquer in the end” are an echo of Terence MacSwiney, whose hunger strike in 1920 lasted 74 days, one more than Doherty’s.
(2004 images of 2001 M01476)
Slemish Way, Andersonstown, west Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
M02192
2004 image of the names (left) and portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers, seen previously in 2001.
Bishop Street, Derry
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
M02174
2004 images of the hunger strikers memorial in Rossville Street, Derry, featuring a large stone ‘H’ and a lark in barbed wire.
For images of the two stones to either side of the ‘H’, see the 2001 entry. The large stone at a short distance behind the middle of the H is a memorial to the Derry Brigade.
Rossville Street, Bogside, Derry
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
M02132 M02130 M02131
Peter Moloney Collection 