Or, with h-lenition, Teach Sheosaımh Mhıc Gıollabhuí. The Sınn Féın press centre on the Falls Road, Belfast, is named for anti-Treaty IRA man Joe McKelvey, who was also the founder of the O’Donovan Rossa GAA club in Belfast. The mural features the shields of the four provinces and Sınn Féın in Celtic-style lettering.
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Gerry Adams’s portrait is painted (by Mo Chara Kelly) on a Tricolour occupying an advertising hoarding on the Springfield Road, Belfast. There is also “Smash H Block” and “Sınn Féın” graffiti on the wall below.
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A volunteer with rocket-propelled grenade launcher kneels between “Vote Sinn Féin” and “Adams X” and under a variety of election posters, including “Freedom Justice Peace” and “Keep building, says SDLP“. Whiterock Road, Belfast.
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A large Tricolour and the words of Padraig Pearse next to the island of Ireland with the letters “SF”. Westrock Drive, Belfast
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“SF”, “IRA” and a Tricolour. Westrock Drive, Belfast
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“Vote Adams”, “SF”. Westrock Drive, Belfast.
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The main panel, of three IRA volunteers with raised weapons, was painted by Sean ‘Conker’ Connolly, based on the poster below. Also on the wall are a Tricolour, “Sinn Fein/Gerry Adams” and a small board at the top with a raised fist and the slogan “Unity is strength”. Westrock Drive, Belfast.
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The Springhill shops with “Vote Sinn Féin” painted between the windows of the upper floors.
Springhill Avenue, Belfast.
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Electioneering graffiti in Springhill Avenue, Belfast.
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“Keep building says SDLP. Don’t keep building say the people of South Armagh” (referring to British Army installations). “Saoırse Ceart Síocháın”/”Freedom Justice Peace”, and a hand-painted “Tıocfıadh Ár Lá” and Tricolour and Sunburst flags on crossed pikes, with an armalite. Sinn Féin election posters and republican symbols in Springhill Avenue, Belfast.
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