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.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01672
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
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2002/2003 Peter Moloney
M01664 M01665 M01973
“When the story of the Belfast Brigade of the IRA is told, when the war is over, is ended, among that story the names, the stories, the tales, the sacrifices, the actions of the volunteers from the Greater Ballymurphy area will be written large.” “This monument was erected by the republican people of Greater Ballymurphy in proud and loving memory of all those volunteers from the area who their lives in the fight for Irish freedom.” “Unveiled by Gerry Adams 12th May 1985.” “I ndıl cuımhne [chuimhne] ı gcónaı ag na poblachtánaıgh ón cheantar Barr Cluanaı.” “Also in memory of the civilians who died at the hands of the British Army, RUC, UDR and loyalist extremists.” The plaque was featured previously but the surrounding mural, with phoenix and volunteers with lowered rifles, is new. Ballymurphy Road, Belfast.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2002, 2004 Peter Moloney
M01653 M01654 M02238
2001 image of the Sandy Row UDA funeral volley mural previously seen in 1997. The same “fuck Rangers” graffitist who sprayed the Sandy Row UFF ‘wings’ mural also got to this mural. “In proud memory of our fallen comrades. We forget them not – at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.”
Boyne Court, Sandy Row, south Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01517
IRA 3rd battation volunteers Joseph Downey, Brendan Davison, and Tony Nolan are commemorated with a mural of a firing party and the crests of the four provinces.
Lower Stanfield Street, south Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01510
Shots are fired over a Tricolour-covered coffin, with a poster or plaque of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers.
For the phoenix below, see The People Arose in ’69.
Clowney Street, west Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01454
Three volunteers fire a funeral volley over a coffin with Tricolour, beret, and gloves.
Falls Road, west Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01448
A trio of volunteers with Long Kesh in the background fire a funeral volley over photographic portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers.
Springhill Avenue, west Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01434
A version of the Bobby Sands quote: “Everyone, republican or otherwise, has their own particular role.”
Bishop Street, Derry
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01411
Here is a trio of loyalist boards in Dennet Gardens, Londonderry with the insignia of the Young Citizen Volunteers, the Ulster Volunteer Force, and the Red Hand Commandos. The design of a garland of flowers containing a regimental insignia dates to the Ulster Volunteers of 1912; the masked volunteers standing to attention do not.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1998 Peter Moloney
M01400
