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Easter

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Two images of a mural on the Whiterock Road, Belfast, celebrating the Easter Rising. A soldier raises the Irish Tricolour while trampling on a Union Flag on a broken mast. On the right hand side are the Easter lily and halberds/pikes and an assault rifle, indicating the past and present of the 1916 revolt. In the background is a poorly drawn GPO. The original image of the central figure can be seen in this Extramural Activity post.

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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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Beıdh Ár Lá Lınn

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Nine hooded republican volunteers, employing an assortment of weapons – rifles, RPG launcher, drogue bomb, machine gun – against a rising sun in South Link, Belfast. “We will have our day.” The trio in the bottom right corner are familiar from other murals, such as this one in Strabane.

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Your Smile Disfigures Us

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“Our day will come” and “A message to our enemies: Go home soldier. Your presence here destroys the air, your smile disfigures us. Go home soldier before we send you home dead. INLA.” Part of Patrick Galvin’s poem “Letter to a British soldier on Irish soil”. Ballycolman, Strabane.

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