IRA 3rd battation volunteers Joseph Downey, Brendan Davison, and Tony Nolan are commemorated with a mural of a firing party and the crests of the four provinces.
Lower Stanfield Street, south Belfast
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In-progress shots of the St James community mural in Hugo Street, Belfast, including posters of 1981 hunger strikers Bernard Fox and Pat Sheehan. A blanketman would be added at the top and a funeral scene – with child leaning on coffin – to the left.
Click here for the completed mural.
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“They may kill the revolutionary, but never the revolution.” The phrase is attributed to Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. Republican volunteer with AK in front of a Tricolour. Rockmore Road, Belfast. Seen previously in 1999.
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Shots are fired over a Tricolour-covered coffin, with a poster or plaque of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers.
For the phoenix below, see The People Arose in ’69.
Clowney Street, west Belfast
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Three volunteers fire a funeral volley over a coffin with Tricolour, beret, and gloves.
Falls Road, west Belfast
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A large “H” on the Whiterock Road, Belfast with pictures of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers, and Frank Stagg and Michael Gaughan on the crossbar, with Tricolour and Starry Plough flags (and perhaps a 20th anniversary flag).
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A version of the Bobby Sands quote: “Everyone, republican or otherwise, has their own particular role.”
Bishop Street, Derry
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“Support the prisoner candidate” – former PIRA volunteer and CIRA leader Tommy Crossan stood from Maghaberry Prison as a RSF candidate for West Belfast in 2001 (Éıre Nua) and urged voters to “spoil your vote” – see the posters on the wall; also Bennie et al p. 59).
In 2014 he would be killed after his expulsion from CIRA – see RIP Vol Tommy Crossan.
Divis Street, west Belfast
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The flags of Ireland, the Basque Country, and an unknown flag – blue, white, and blue vertical stripes with a sun/flower design on a dark blue square or diamond. (Please get in touch if you recognize it.) Beechmount Pass, Belfast.
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“They may kill the revolutionary, but never the revolution.” Volunteer with an assault rifle in front of a Tricolour.
Rockmore Road, Belfast.
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