anti-Agreement republican

We Haven’t Gone Away

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Sınn Féın leader Gerry Adams said of the (Provisional) IRA in 1995 “They haven’t gone away, you know” (youtube). The phrase is used here (“hav’nt”) by post- and anti-Agreement IRA.

The second image shows a BRY board with a traditional spring-time republican message: “Honour Ireland’s patriot dead – wear an Easter lily.”

Both boards are in Iniscarn Crescent outside the City Cemetery, which is shown in the third image bedecked in Tricolours and Starry Ploughs.

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Easter Commemoration

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Competing Sinn Féin and IRSP Easter commemorations on the site of the former RUC barracks, and from éirígí in Beechmount Avenue, for Easter Monday.

“Belfast Easter Commemoration, Sunday 31st March. Assemble Beechmount Ave 1pm, parade leaves 1.30pm sharp. Speaker: Mary Lou McDonald, Vice President Sinn Féin/TD. Honour Ireland’s patriot dead – wear an Easter lily. Cumann Uaigheann na Laochra Gael – National Graves Association.”

“Belfast IRSP commemoration parade, Easter Sunday, Dunville Pk 11 am.”

“1916 Rising Commemoration, Easter Monday 1pm. Assemble St James Road.”

Falls Road, Belfast

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Find Us On Facebook

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Hand-painted “BRY” [Bogside Republican Youth], “No RUC” and “Support our POWs” boards but also computer-designed and -printed stickers in the Bogside, Derry. The boards are probably local productions, while the stickers probably come from the same German store responsible for the anti-fascist, “Irish republican solidarity” and “Good night, loyalist pride” stickers (see Northern Ireland World). The Facebook sticker is presumably for the store or for antifa; as far as we know, BRY has never had a Facebook page or internet presence; the web address “www.irishrepublicansolidarity.info/” is defunct.

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Name Change, No Change

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“RUC – PSNI. Name change – no change. No political policing. No special powers. No daily armed raids. No daily harassment. No PSNI in our schools. No MI5. No £10 touts. No interment [sic]. Republican Network.ie.” (The web address no longer functions but there is a Fb page.)

Lenadoon Avenue, Belfast

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Freedom First

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Five small éirígí (web) pieces of graffiti and stenciling from Creeslough Park (at the corner with Lenadoon Avenue), Belfast. The stencils are of James Connolly (“We defy you! Do your worst!”) and the 3-in-1 figure combining police (“RUC-PSNI – different name, same aim”), Orange Order, and paramilitary.

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