Sean Garland, long-time OIRA member and president of the Workers’ Party, was arrested in Belfast in October 2005 in connection with a USA extradition request on charges of trafficking in counterfeit dollars.
Grosvenor Road, Belfast
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Real IRA volunteer John Brady was arrested in 2003 and charged with possession and returned to prison in 2004 and in September 2005 – the time-period of the flag above – charged with the attempted murder of an RIR officer in 2002 (IndyMedia). (The case, based on DNA evidence would collapse.)
Bridge Street, Strabane
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2005 image of the 1997 UFF POW mural, with Ulster nationalist flag on the left.
Ebrington Terrace, Waterside, Londonderry
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Obins Street, Portadown, was the site of clashes over Orange parading in the mid-1980s, a decade before Drumcree/Garvaghy Road. In this graffiti, residents offer support to Ardoyne (possibly Holy Cross). Also “Free Seán Kelly“.
Obins Drive, Portadown
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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.
Falls Road, west Belfast
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Another Seán Kelly board, this one in Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast, with Continuity IRA graffiti below.
There is a Visual History page of this wall, as it is the most frequently muraled wall in Belfast.
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“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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