UVF stencil, perhaps dating back to the mid-1990s, in Pearl Street, Belfast.
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Release The Prisoners
POWs
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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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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Tar Anall
These three images from around Conway Mill are from 2008, before the mill was renovated. At the time, the mill was home to Tar Anall ex-prisoners’ centre and the Eileen Hickey Irish republican History Museum, as well as a print-shop and mattress store.
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Loyalist Ballysally
A UFF prisoner behind bars backed with silhouetted gunmen – the UFF would not stand down until November, 2007.
Danes Hill, Coleraine
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Release The Prisoners Of War Now
Still standing after a decade or more on Racecourse Road (see 1998) – a ‘green ribbon’ mural from the ceasefire/GFA period.
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Free John Brady Now
“Free John Brady Now – End internment – W???/32CSM” on Chapel Road exiting east from Dungiven. John Brady was released under the Agreement but was returned to prison in 2003 on weapons charges. He died in prison in 2009 (RN); an inquest will begin in November 2018 (Irish News).
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Political Status Now
“Political status now” – one of four such small boards along the Falls. The others are “Join Republican Sınn Féın 1905-2001“, “RSF“, and “Brits out, not sell out“. Below it (cut off) is “Go mall – páıstí’ (“Slowly – children”).
Islandbawn Street, Belfast
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