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Hunger Strike

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The sixth mural from the Bogside Artists commemorates the 1980 hunger strikes, first in Long Kesh and subsequently in Armagh Women’s Prison. The main figure is Raymond McCartney; the female figure is perhaps Mary Doyle (the other two female strikers were Maıréad Farrell and Maıréad Nugent). The info board is from 2007. Rossville Street, Derry.

“This mural is dedicated to the H Block/Armagh prison struggle and in memory of [the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers]. Ní neart go cur le chéıle.”

The paint-bombed version is from May, 2013, but the mural would not be replaced until 2015.

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Ireland’s Holocaust

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“Britain’s genocide by starvation”, “Ireland’s  holocaust 1845-1849”, “Over 1,500,000 deaths”. Completed version of the Great Hunger mural on the Whiterock Road, Belfast, previously seen twice in development: 1995 | 1997. The images used are from Illustrated London Newses of the time (see the Visual History page on an gorta mór).

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Upper Springfield Development Trust

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1999 image of the Upper Springfield Development Trust (formed in 1993 from the Upper Springfield Forum) mural on the Whiterock Road, Belfast, now with a large vent unfortunately sticking out of the middle of it. “Mol an óıge agus tıocfaıdh sí”. (Praise youth and it will flourish.)

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Release The Prisoners Of War Now

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Three in a row, and a wide shot, from Racecourse Road, Derry. Two for the green ribbon campaign to release republican POWs – the ribbon itself is bursting through prison gates in a blaze of sunshine – and the Slán Abhaıle mural previously seen in 1994.

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Prisons

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A call for the release of republican political prisoners, with an explicit list of prisons: Whitemoor, Frankland, Belmarsh, Full Sutton (all four in England), Long Kesh, Maghaberry, Portlaoise, USA. Green ribbon, dove with keys, Tricolours on pikes, Long Kesh skyline.

Port Road, Letterkenny

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