Cluan Place is a single street in east Belfast separated from (nationalist) Short Strand by a “peace” line. The mural features an unusual combination of Union Flag and Ulster Banner. For a history of Cluan Place, see Out Of The Ashes. “5 people shot – houses burnt – houses bombed. 20 families intimidated out by Sinn Fein/IRA. Still loyalist. No surrender.”
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“Iarsmalann na Staıre Poblachtach Éıreannach. Irish Republican History Museum. Conway Mill Complex. Tá fáılte roımh gach duıne.” with anti-Sınn Féın graffiti below.
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“Direct rule! Can you afford it? Rates increases; lost investment; water charges; education cuts; job losses; health cuts; economic collapse; racism; sectarianism; unfair planning laws; more rural decline. Speak up! There is an alternative. Restore the institutions; implement the Good Friday Agreement. All your futures. Find your voice. http://www.november24.org .” Sınn Féın board above the Falls Road office.
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The March For Truth was a 2007 event in nationalist west Belfast highlighting a number of related issues: the Ballymurphy and Springhill/Westrock massacres, collusion, and shoot-to-kill; it also commemorated the 1981 hunger strike and the beginning of the Troubles.
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Sınn Féın Youth claims to be the “tóırsıre”/”torch-bearer” for the campaign to unite Ireland.
Racecourse Road, Derry
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“Brits out – not sellout”, “SF/RUC”, and “A vote for SF [Sınn Féın] is a vote for the RUC” (a reference to Sınn Féın’s decision to takes its seats on the PSNI policing board in 2007).
Lecky Road, Derry
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Anti-Sınn Féın graffiti in Blucher Street, Derry.
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“Saoırse, ceart agus síocháın [freedom, justice and peace]” – Sınn Féın electoral hoarding on the Glenshane Road, near Maghera.
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“I ndíl [ndıl] chuımhne Máıre Drumm, Vice President of Sınn Féın, assassinated by loyalists 28th Oct. 1976. ‘We must take no steps backward, our steps must be onward, for if we don’t, the martyrs that died for you, for me, for this country, will haunt us forever.'” Máıre Drumm was Vice President from 1972 until her death, killed in the Mater hospital by RHC volunteers dressed as doctors.
Falls Road, Belfast
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Londonderry loyalists agree with “dissident” republicans (see e.g. Who’s Next?) that the PSNI and Sınn Féın are now aligned.
The Fountain, Londonderry
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