1997 version of a 1995 mural: Long Kesh through the keyhole.
Donore Court, north Belfast
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Saoırse
Gaeilge
Saoırse
A Christmas reminder about republicans in jail: “Saoırse – Release the POWs”. For the same candle in barbed wire and chained-up forearms, see Sınn Féın Action Monitor.
Market Street, Belfast
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Release All POWs Now
Both male and female prisoners of war are represented in this mural: by the male and female faces — the male above the silhouette of Long Kesh, the female behind bars (presumably of Armagh prison) – and by the (formerly astrological) symbols for male (Mars) and female (Venus). “Saoırse” (“freedom”). The mural is signed (top left): “G[erard Mo Chara] Kelly 95 [© SF??]”.
Kinallen Court, Belfast
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Saoırse
A small board in Lecky Road, Derry, with a green ribbon and the word “saoırse” on a Tricolour.
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Free All Political Prisoners
“Saoırse – free all political prisoners”. Board in Kells Walk, Derry
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Free The Prisoners
A dove carries the key that would bring freedom (“saoırse”) to republican POWs. Part of the ‘green ribbon’ campaign.
Lepper Street, New Lodge, north Belfast
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Free The POWs
Republican H-Block POWs divided into “sentenced’ (Lyttle, S. Campbell, Collins, McGarrigle, McKinney, McSorley, McEvoy, Doherty, McKeirnan, Thompson, Mary E. Campbell) and “remand” (Magee, Mahon, O’Hagan, Bradley, M. Campbell, Hughes, Stitt, Boyle, Lavery, McCart).
On the right, a manacled fist in front of strands of barbed wire, with “saoırse” and the male and female symbols in the green of the ‘green ribbon’ campaign. New Lodge Road, Belfast. Also rare: the mural is dated (1995).
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Saoırse
Long Kesh viewed through a keyhole, with green ribbons from the campaign to free republican prisoners. “The mural was donated by New Lodge RAC [Relatives Action Committee]”.
(Here is the same mural in 1997.)
Donore Court, Belfast
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Craıc Agus Ceol
Irish dancing to fiddle and bodhrán: Féıle Phobaıl an Lóıste Úır (New Lodge People’s Festival). With a tricolour border and green ribbons for the release of POWs.
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Sınn Féın Peace Action Monitor
Two larger boards on the second storey of the Sınn Féın office on the Falls Road. On the left: “If you are harassed, intimidated or victimized by British Army or RUC, contact your local Sınn Féın”, “Demilitarise now!” On the right: the “Slán Abhaıle” image with “Saoırse – Free the political prisoners”, and “Dea mhéın dár dtacaıthe go leır óna cıme cogaıdh” with a list of “Clonard/Lr Falls” POWs.
For the smaller boards on the first floor, see Unlock The Door To Peace.
Falls Road, west Belfast
The image was also produced in the Short Strand (east Belfast), in Ardoyne (north Belfast), on Free Derry Corner, in Shantallow (Derry), and in Letterkenny.
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