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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Freedom 2000
POWs
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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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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