Here is a wide shot of the panels in Bishop Street. Some of these were previously featured in close-up (Patsy O’Hara | Broken H | Saor Éıre | Spirit Of Freedom | Unlock H Block | Flags And Shields) but a few were not: Victory To The Hunger Strikers and a harp, to the right (probably with “You can kill the revolutionary but not the revolution”).
Bishop Street, Derry
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A stand of two tricolours and “saor éıre” — Irish for “Free Ireland”.
Bishop Street, Derry
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The four provinces are named in Irish/Gaelic — Uladh/Ulster, Laıghean/Leinster, Muman/Munster, Connacta/Connaght — around a (vandalised) image of an IRA (óglaıgh na hÉıreann) volunteer.
unknown street, (Beechmount?) Belfast.
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M00219 (see also X05727)
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The view from Top Of The Hill looking down over the old town and the bogside. The island of Ireland in green, white, and orange, “Smash H-Block”, “Political status now”.
Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry
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“English Out”: Britain in the form of a riot policeman batoning a bloodied Ireland was (and remains) the symbol of the Troops Out Movement, an British pro-(Irish-)Nationalist organisation founded in 1973. The image of Britain in riot gear beating Ireland with a truncheon first appeared in the Irish Citizen newspaper and was designed by Jack Clafferty (Red Mole).
“Sasanach” is one English person, whereas the sentiment is presumably that they [Sasanaigh] should all leave. But that doesn’t rhyme so well.
Andersonstown Road (where exactly?), Belfast
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In addition to the board at the top of the stairs there is a tricolour with “IRA” on it (to the left) and (on the right) the names, in Irish, of the first four hunger-strikers on either side of a celtic cross: Roıbeard Ó Seachnasagh, Eamonn Mac Craoıs, Pronsıas Ó hAodha, and Pádraıg Ó hEadhra.
For the twin end-wall, see Their Hunger, Their Pain, Our Struggle.
Shaws Road, west Belfast.
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There is a lot going on in this image: pedestrians pass in front of a row of boarded-up shops, above them is written “Until the last prisoner is free we are all imprisoned” with posters of the hunger strikers, an Irish tricolour and “If they die, you die”; on the left “No, not a dog, but a POW” and a version of the five demands, concerning prison uniforms, work, association, parcels, and remission.
Ballymurphy shops, west Belfast
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“Éıríodh muíd [muıd] arís” [“let us rise again”]
Odessa St, west Belfast
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Graffiti in Andersonstown, Belfast (please leave a comment if you know the street – possibly Glen Road?)
“Saor agus Gaeḋealaċ” [or, with h-lenition, Saor agus Gaedhealach”] and “H-Block Provo’s rule ATown”
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Graffiti from left to right: “Crues 2 RUC 0”, “Éıre Úr”, “H block”.
Andersonstown Road, Belfast, on and above the shops opposite Connolly House.
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