2005 image of the 1997 UFF POW mural, with Ulster nationalist flag on the left.
Ebrington Terrace, Waterside, Londonderry
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Long Kesh LPOW
POWs
Obins St Supports Ardoyne Residents
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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Hain Is Insane
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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Free Seán Kelly
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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Free Seán Kelly
“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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M02552
Prisoner Behind Bars
A (republican) prisoner behind bars, in Divismore Park, west Belfast.
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Freedom 2000
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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Common Sense UDP
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
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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M02386
Consolidate The Peace
“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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