This is a mural sponsored by and for the Upper Springfield Development Trust (web | until 1993 the Upper Springfield Development Forum) focusing on young people: “Mol an óıge agus tıocfaıdh sí.” (Praise youth/the young and it will flourish.”/”Youth responds to praise.”)
Signed by “Mo Chara” (Gerard “Mo Chara” Kelly) and “Spud” in the bottom right corner.
Whiterock Road, west Belfast
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Éıre Nua Republican Flute Band (Fb) celebrates its fifteen anniversary with traditional republican symbols – the four provinces, celtic knotwork, and the flags of Ireland and socialism. Whiterock Road, Belfast.
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1997 version of a 1995 mural: Long Kesh through the keyhole.
Donore Court, north Belfast
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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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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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A small board in Lecky Road, Derry, with a green ribbon and the word “saoırse” on a Tricolour.
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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“Saoırse – free all political prisoners”. Board in Kells Walk, Derry
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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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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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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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