“Votáıl Adams” and the rest of the Sınn Féın’s team. Both Westminster and local elections were held on June 7th, 2001.
This is the first photographic election ad from Sınn Féın in the collection. Up to this point, there have only been painted boards.
Andersonstown Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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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” is an echo of Terence MacSwiney, whose hunger strike in 1920 lasted 74 days, one more than Doherty’s.
Painted by Lucas Quigley in Slemish Way, Andersonstown, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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“RUC must go anoıs! [now]”. Stencil on Andersonstown Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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A fist clenched two strands of barbed wire. “Saoırse [freedom] – Free all POWs”.
Andersonstown Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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Scots Guardsmen Mark Wright and James Fisher, who served six years of a life sentence for the killing of Peter McBride and then rejoined the army, are compared to republican POWs: “An open letter to the British Secretary of State: Why does your government show preferential treatment to ‘state murders’ while discriminating against Irish POWs – we are denied employment, PSV license, no adoption, compensation, visas. Why? Signed St James’s POWs. Co[m]hıonannas do gach duıne” (equality for everyone)
Donegall Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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In this board from “St James’s youth” and “St James’s ex-prisoners and carnival choas” St Patrick at the head of a parade of children is blocked from city hall by an Orangeman. The first St Patrick’s day parade to be held in Belfast city centre was in 1998 but funding for this and parades until 2006 was denied on the grounds that it was not inclusive of Protestants (Bryan & Skinner). The event “Tús maıth leath na hoıbre” [a good start is half the work].
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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“I ndıl chuımhne na gcımí poblachtanacha a fuaır bas ı ngéıbheann ı rıth na coımhlınte reatha seo.” A lark bursts through prison bars of Long Kesh, Portlaoise, and prisons in England, in which republicans have died from the 70s to 90s.
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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Sean O’Casey’s Shadow Of A Gunman gets an Irish-language adaptation (by Gearóıd Ó Caırealláın) at An Cultúrlann, Falls Road, west Belfast.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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In Táın Bó Cúaılnge, the “sweet-mouth harpers of Caın Bıle” are also “druids, men of great cunning and great power of augury and magic.” They come to Medb and Aılıll to entertain them, carrying mistletoe by which they sing, but are mistaken as Ulster spies; the harpers turn themselves into deer to escape their pursuers, near the Lıa Mór (Great Stone) (Death Of Lethan).
Springhill Avenue, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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Peter Mandelson served as NI Secretary from October 1999 (replacing Mo Mowlam) to January 2001. As such, he oversaw the creation of the Assembly and of the PSNI. His departure (on 2001-01-24) is greeted with celebration and song – “Slán Abhaıle”.
Divis Street, Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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