“Flynny” and various others have left their mark on a ‘Patsy O’Hara Youth Movement’ mural showing an INLA volunteer between Starry Plough and Tricolour in Divis Flats.
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Four images from Divis Flats, Belfast, in 1985. First and second, the two murals in the middle of the complex, both from 1981, one to INLA volunteers Matt McLarnon (killed in action on 12 May, 1981) and Danny Loughran (killed by the OIRA on 5 April, 1975) and the other (on the left) a street scene from yesteryear, part of the City Council’s Community Services programme from 1977 to 1981 (see chapter 2 of Bill Rolston’s Politics & Painting). Third, “Touts beware”. Fourth, “Stop the strip searches” on the top of the flats (to the right of faded “Divis Flats supports the hunger strikers”).
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Four pieces of graffiti from Unity Flats. “1971 No Trials, 1984 Show Trials” (referring to the Supergrass system) along with “IRSP” (Irish Republican Socialist Party) and “FSLN” (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional), a red star and a sickle; “If you want the RUC in Newry, ring 999 and ask for 9” (referring to a February 1985 mortar attack that killed 9 officers); “Kirkpatrick Paid Informer” (referring to the INLA’s Harry Kirkpatrick (WP); and “INLA-Freedom”.
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“We the people fully support the hunger strikers on whatever action they take “themselves”.” With Irish Tricolours and “IRA”, “Provos”, and “INLA”.
For the gate to the left, see Remember The Hunger Strikers.
Blucher Street, Derry
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At the base of Rossville flats (as seen in the second image): “Patsy O’Hara, O.C. [Officer Commanding, in Long Kesh], INLA”. The shamrock makes a rare appearance alongside the Tricolour and Starry Plough. Rossville Street, Derry. With “Victory to the INLA”, “FTQ”, “Provos” and “IRA” graffiti, and, on the right hand side, the Bloody Sunday memorial.
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A volunteer carrying the Starry Plough flag of the INLA. Rossville Street, Derry.
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Two images from 1982 of the graffiti in the previous post (from 1981): “God made the Catholics and the Armalite made us equal”.
On the lower wall, next to Rossville flats, are various graffiti: FTQ”, “IRA”, (possibly re-purposed from “FTOIRA”?), “UTP”, “INLA”, “Bobby Sands MP”
Fahan Street/Nailor’s Row, Bogside, Derry
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The red star and the hammer-and-sickle make an appearance alongside the Tricolour, Starry Plough, a fist grasping barbed wire, and the names of four hunger-strikers: B. Sands, P. O’Hara, R. McCreesh, F. Hughes. Turf Lodge shops, Monagh Road/Monagh Gardens/Norglen Road, Belfast
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Martin Luther King in 1966 (in an interview on CBS) said “A riot is the language of the unheard” and in 1967 (in “Beyond Vietnam“) wrote “I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.” Misquoted and taken out of context, his words are used approvingly in this INLA/IRA mural.
Gransha Avenue, Belfast
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A phoenix in the colours of the Irish tricolour.
Shaw’s Road, west Belfast.
With “INLA” on the shutters of the off-licence next door.
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