“Interned 05.” Seán Kelly, one of the bombers of Frizzell’s fish shop in 1993, was released under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement but returned to jail in June 2005 by NI Secretary Peter Hain. He would be released a month later.
Beechview Park, west Belfast
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A (republican) prisoner behind bars, in Divismore Park, west Belfast.
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Almost all political prisoners, both republican and loyalist, had been released, under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, by July 28th, 2000. The mural above shows the huts of Long Kesh and the H-blocks of the Maze.
Hopewell Crescent, lower Shankill, west Belfast
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The Ulster Democratic Party (UDP) was the political wing of the UDA, and supported a policy of an independent Northern Ireland (as described in the policy document ‘Common Sense‘). It won a few council seats in the late 1980s and early 1990s and dissolved in 2001 (BBC-NI). The fourth panel (top right) is of the Ulster Workers’ Council strike that brought down the Sunningdale Agreement.
Bellevue Street, west Belfast
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Young Newton branch of the Ulster Young Militants, 1st Battalion, East Belfast Brigade. “Simply the best.”
Previously: Young Newton Says No | Young Newton at Freedom Corner.
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“Release east Belfast’s loyalist prisoners”. This mural of Maze/Long Kesh watchtowers and barbed wire dates back to at least 1997, during the peace process.
Harvey Court, east Belfast
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Vintage RHC [Red Hand Commando] stencil on Newtownards Road calling for the release of loyalist prisoners.
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“Free our prisoners.” “LPA” is the “Loyalist Prisoners Association”. Its symbol (in the second image) is a red hand in barbed wire. In the main mural, a pair of red hands are in shackles and the fences of the Maze are superimposed on an outline of Northern Ireland filled in with the walls of the Maze/Long Kesh.
Lord Street, east Belfast
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2004 image of the 32CSM (and out of shot to the right, IRPWA) mural on the Whiterock Road, Belfast, seen previously in 2002. “HMP Maghaberry = Stormont’s best kept secret. “Where 81′ never happened. – 32CSM”
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A ‘green ribbon’ campaign mural in Springfield Avenue, Belfast, with the classic portrait of a Long Kesh/H Block hunger striker.
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