“Feriens, tego” or “Striking, I Defend” is the motto of the Ulster Freedom Fighters, the cover name used by the Ulster Defence Association, whose motto is in the main mural: “Quis separabit” or “Who will separate [us]?”.
Lord Street, east Belfast
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These images are of the IRA memorial stone in Bingnian Drive, Belfast, honouring members of the B Company, 1st Battalion, Belfast Brigade and local Andersonstown residents. The stone bears an Easter lily, including a leaf of the plant.
“Togadh an leach chuımhneacháın seo ı ndíl [ndıl] chuımhne na nÓglach de chuıd complacht B an chéad chathlann Brıogáıd Bhéal Feırste, Óglaıgh na hÉıreann. Moltoır, comh maıth, a gcuıd comradaıthe a sheas agust a throıd lena daıobh. Bíodh cuımhneadh, fosta, ar na daoıne ón cheantaır a chınmharaıodh ag arm na Breataıne agus a comhglacaıthe.”
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The roll of honour, seen unfinished in 2003, is completed with colour and the flags of IRA and INLA.
Lecky Road, Derry.
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Three INLA volunteers are commemorated on this Rossville Street, Derry, plaque. 18 year-old Colm McNutt was shot by an undercover SAS officer during a botched hijacking, tipped off by best friend and informer Raymond Gilmour (Irish News). A drunken Phelan was shot by an off-duty NYPD officer in New York, nine years after leaving the country (LA Times | NY Times). McShane was run over and crushed by a British APC during riots against the treatment of Catholics during the Drumcree standoff (RN). “Thıg leo an réabhlóıdeach a mharú, ach ní thıg leo an réabhlóıd a mharú choíche.” [They can kill the revolutionary but they can never kill the revolution.]
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A “roll of honour” (faintly visible at the top) to the 1981 hunger strikers, with a volunteer firing a rifle, is unfinished in Lecky Road, Derry.
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Two of the three comms (“communications”, messages by H-Block prisoners on tobacco paper or toilet paper and smuggled from wing to wing or to the outside) reproduced in this mural describe the decision to undertake the hunger strike (written by Bobby Sands) and the reaction to his death (from Ardoyne man Bik McFarlane to “Brownie” – Gerry Adams). The three describes a beating received by Ardoyne resident and blanket man Brendan McClenaghan.
Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast
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“Remember the hunger strikers 1981 – still not forgotten.”
Springhill Park, Strabane
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Here are six images of the hunger strikers mural in Mountpottinger Road, Belfast. The ten portraits are on cut wooden boards while the rest is painted. On the far right (image 5) is a “spirit of freedom” lark and the names of the ten deceased 1981 strikers. In the centre (image 3) is blanket man Hugh Rooney.
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Here is the scene in Clowney Street, Belfast, in 2002: the (third? version of the) phoenix mural is 12 years old, and the funeral volley mural above it (seen in 2001) has lost one of its boards.
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St James’s supports the hunger strikes – in Long Kesh and Armagh and (on the right) in Turkey.
Various images and posters from 1980 and 1981 are reproduced. Along the top, we see (l-r) a soldier is confronted at the top of Springhill (image at Irish Times), “Wanted for murder [and torture of Irish prisoners]” (image at MSU), “Mothers hunger”, “Blessed are those who hunger for justice“, “Where there is oppression there is resistance”, Armagh hunger-striker Mary Doyle.
Along the bottom: “Stop strip searches“, “Save our children from plastic death”, “Support the hunger strike demands”, and portraits of 1981 hunger-strikers Bernard Fox and Pat Sheehan, both from the Falls Road.
For Turkish hunger-strikers, see F-Block Martyrs | Zehra Kulaksiz | Support The Turkish Hunger Strikers.
On the side-wall to the left, son Joseph McDonnell weeps at the foot of the coffin of his father, Joe.
For in-progress images, see the 2001 post.
Hugo Street, west Belfast
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