Here are four images of a variety of slogans on the Falls Road. The first lists various resistance groups from around the world: IRA, PLO, ETA, ANC. The second has a phone number for “SAS strippers” and something about “One Brit and his dog”. In the third and fourth: “Óglaıgh na hÉıreann”, “Provisional IRA”, “Tıocfaıdh ár lá”, “RUC black bastards”.
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“SS RUC” and “Victory to the IRA” on a Tricolour on the Whiterock Road, Belfast.
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Republican graffiti in Westrock Drive, Belfast.
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UVF warning in the style of a cigarette packet: “Joining the RUC can damage your health”. Also “NF”. Pine Street, Londonderry.
For a similar republican graffito, see IRA Health Warning. For the murals on the far right, see King Billy/UDA.
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“1941 Auschwitz, Buchenwald; 1981 Long Kesh prisoner of war camp” – a repeatedly vandalised mural in Oakman Street, Belfast. Centrally pictured is the killing of Michael McCartan, shot by an RUC officer named McKeown (named on the right) while painting graffiti in south Belfast. For a detailed description see BritishArmyKillings. “20 years it’s still the same – they murder people and have no shame.”
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Another (see Bass Irish Cup) jeering ‘football score’ graffiti on the attack on an RUC station in Newry, this time in Beechmount Avenue, Belfast,
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An unhappy pig wearing a police cap in Hawkin Street, Londonderry.
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Graffiti in the Little Diamond in Derry: “RUC out”, “IRA” and (something like) “Join the Cumann na gCailini”.
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Darkly humorous mural in Bligh’s Gardens, Derry, parodying the ‘Discover Ireland’ tourism advertisements: “Discover Ireland: sectarian RUC, loyalist UDR, the H Blocks, plastic bullets, murdering UDA, British thugs, Armagh hell-hole, special courts … but I bet you haven’t seen the half of it.”
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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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