“In memory of IRA Volunteer Sean Gaynor who was murdered in his home at 236 Springfield Road by members of the RIC on the 26th September 1920. Erected by the greater Clonard ex-prisoners association.” Gaynor was one of three victims of an RIC murder gang that night (See ROM’s account.)
Colinview Street, Belfast
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“Fuck the hoods” and “Up the [I]RA”. Republican graffiti in Lecky Road, Derry.
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“It is not those who can inflict the most but those who can endure the most shall win [who will conquer].” (Terence MacSwiney). Those “from the Ardoyne, Bone, and Ligoniel who died because of Ireland’s troubles” are commemorated on the Celtic cross (which dates back to 1976). The plaque (dating at least to 1993) reads “Oft from prison bars, oft from battle flashes/Oft from heroes’ lip, oftenest from their ashes.” and includes names of deceased IRA and Sınn Féın members killed up to 1972, and civilian locals.
Berwick Avenue, north Belfast
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Óglaıgh na hÉıreann/IRA boards on the corner of Crumlin Road and Brompton Park, in Ardoyne, Belfast.
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IRA volunteer Patsy Duffy was shot by undercover British Army soldiers at an arms cache in Maureen Avenue, Derry, near the spot of this plaque in his memory.
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Pat Hughes was a former British Army soldier who later joined the IRA and was killed in an accidental explosion (in 1972). He is remembered along with Edward Grant (1973), Michael Hughes (1974), Brendan Watters (1984), Colm Marks (1991). Together the five are known as the “Derrybeg Martyrs”.
Main Avenue, Newry
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Two “IRA” nail-ups, both in Newry, one in Derrybeg with an Easter lily, the other on Camlough Road with a Tricolour.
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Bus shelters in Camlough Road, Newry, painted with a Starry Plough (for the INLA) and a Tricolour (for the IRA).
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IRA volunteer Dennis (or Denis, according to Sutton, and thence lots of others) Heaney was kill on June 10th, 1978 by an undercover British Army member whilst attempting to hijack a car, near the spot of this plaque to his memory in Harvey Street, Derry.
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“IRA” and an “RUC must go” road-sign triangle – two nail-ups on either side of an electricity pole in Fountain Street, Strabane.
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