Vintage UDA/UFF stencil on the shutters of A1 Alterations on the Newtownards Road.
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Copyright © 2009 Peter Moloney
M04922
Send Our Prisoners Home
POWs
Clonduff Twelfth
Clonduff prepares for Eleventh Night with a bonfire off Clonduff Drive and bunting in Tullyard Way. There are also nine (at least) vintage “UVF Release The Prisoners’ stencils in the area.
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Strabane Republican Ex-Prisoners
The Strabane republican ex-prisoners centre is in Melvin Road, Strabane, next to the Sınn Féın office.
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End Internment By Remand
Internment without trial was a highly controversial ‘Special Power’ enacted in 1971. This 2008 graffiti alleges that the practice still continues under the guise of indefinite remand. The practice was used against RIRA and CIRA members. See, for example, this 2008 RTÉ report and the later case of Luke O’Neill who was granted bail after (only) 17 months.
Lecky Road, Derry
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Freedom 2000
The ‘Freedom 2000’ Long Kesh/H-Blocks mural in the lower Shankill is repainted in orange, with “UDA”, “UFF” and “LPOW” from the previous version painted out.
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Copyright © 2008 Peter Moloney
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Saoırse
The frame of this mural in St James’s was originally painted in 1994 for a mural showing local pensioners remonstrating with a British Army soldier, under the title “The Spirit Of Freedom”. The central circle was repainted (again by Andrea Redmond) for the 1995 “green ribbon” campaign: the dove holds the keys that will set free the republican prisoners (symbolised by the barbed wire and a lark in the apex that cannot be seen).
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Release The Prisoners
UVF stencil, perhaps dating back to the mid-1990s, in Pearl Street, Belfast.
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Maghaberry Prisoners Not Forgotten
“Maghaberry Prisoners Not Forgotten – End internment by remand!!! IRPWA” IRPWA = Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association (irpwa.com).
Divis Street, Belfast
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Copyright © 2008 Peter Moloney
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Free The Derry Four
This “Derry Four” is Gary Donnelly, Michael Gallagher, Martin O’Neill and Paddy McDaid, arrested on charges of RIRA membership (Irish Times). (The original “Derry Four” were arrested for the 1979 murder of Steven Kirby of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. (Update 2019-01.)) Sınn Féın were accused by Creggan residents with removing graffiti in support of the four (Derry Journal). The board underneath is ‘Free Seamus Doherty‘.
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Loyalist Killicomaine
Small boards in the Killicomaine estate in Portadown, on Princess Way and Granville Road. The red hand in barbed wire symbolises loyalist prisoners. (There was another Union Flag board in Gilford Road.)
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