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Basque And Irish Youth Independence And Socialism

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In Basque: “Euskai eta irlandur gazteria etorkizunagatik borrokan” (“Basque and Irish youth are fighting for the future”). “Éılíonn óıge na mBascach agaus na hÉıreann saoırse agus sóısıalachas”(“Basque and Irish youth demand freedom and socialism”).

Segi (“follow”) is a proscribed organisation in the EU on account of its ties with ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna). It maintains fraternal ties with the youth wing of Sınn Féın.

Andersonstown Road, Belfast

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Expose Collusion/Free The Castlerea Five

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Castlerea Prison is in Roscommon, Ireland. Five IRA prisoners convicted of killing Garda Jerry McCabe during a robbery in 1996 – Pearse McCauley, Michael O’Neill, John Quinn, Jerry Sheehy, Kevin Walsh – were not released in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement. A campaign for their release was organised under the slogan “Free the Castlerea Five!”. Above is a Sinn Féin call to a rally to “expose collusion – state sponsored murder. Fírınne Anoıs – Truth Now!” Andersonstown Road, Belfast

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The Felons

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The [Irish republican] Felons’ Club or Cumann Na Méırleach Poblachtach Éıreannach (Fb | tw) in 2003. The club was described by Danny Morrison for The Guardian in 1999; despite his pessimism, the club survives to this day (2017).

Falls Road, west Belfast.

Featured previously: an Easter Rising mural inside the club.

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A Company 1st Battalion Belfast Brigade

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“In proud memory of the volunteers from ‘A’ company 1st battalion Belfast brigade Oglaıgh na h-Eıreann who gave their lives in the struggle for Irish freedom also all comrades from the greater republican family who have died and all the people from the area who have been murdered at the hands of the British Army, RUC, UDR and loyalist murder gangs. I measc laochra na nGael go raıbh a n-anamacha.” Shaws Road.

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Freedom Grows

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This is a 20′ x 20′ tarp of an 8′ x 8′ painting done by Mo Chara, shipped over from New York and placed on the side of the Falls library, Belfast. It honours the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers with a verse from a Bobby Sands poem and a border of celtic knotwork, the crests of the four provinces, and other revolutionary and civil rights heroes, include Gandhi, MLK, Gaughan & Stagg, Leonard Peltier/the AIM, Nelson Mandela, Maıréad Farrell, and Nora Connolly.

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Leana An Dúın Unbowed Unbroken

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The dying Cú Chulaınn (as portrayed in bronze by Oliver Sheppard, in a statue installed in the GPO in 1935) is used as a symbol for the locals from Lenadoon area of west Belfast who fought for freedom (“saoırse”): Tony Henderson, John Finucane, Brendan O’Callaghan, Joe McDonnell, Laura Crawford, Maıréad Farrell, Patricia Black, Bridie O’Neill (subsequently changed to Bridie Quinn).

See also the Cú Chulaınn Visual History page.

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Hedge Row School

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“Leabhaır an teanga Ghaeılge lıom” [“Speak Irish with me”]. Catholic (and Presbyterian) education was prohibited by the penal laws (WP) and particularly the Education Act of 1695 (WP) – this is probably what’s on the notice on the left-hand tree. Schooling by Catholics (in Irish) nonetheless took place, in covert houses and outhouses, as well as in fields and hedge-rows. The Act was repealed in 1782, provided the teacher took an oath of allegiance to the Crown.

Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast

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