Republican graffiti in Central Drive, Derry, demanding political status for prisoners in Maghaberry. Previously seen in 2001.
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Copyright © 2003 Peter Moloney
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Support Political Status In Maghaberry
POWs
RIRA Political Status Now
Republican graffiti on the side of a burnt-out Super Valu lorry container.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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The Struggle For Political Status
Expose Collusion/Free The Castlerea Five
Castlerea Prison is in Roscommon, Ireland. Five IRA prisoners convicted of killing Garda Jerry McCabe during a robbery in 1996 – Pearse McCauley, Michael O’Neill, John Quinn, Jerry Sheehy, Kevin Walsh – were not released in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement. A campaign for their release was organised under the slogan “Free the Castlerea Five!”. Above is a Sinn Féin call to a rally to “expose collusion – state sponsored murder. Fírınne Anoıs – Truth Now!” Andersonstown Road, Belfast
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Political Status Now
“Political status now” and an American “Cops out” – republican graffiti in Lecky Road, Derry.
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Silence = Complicity
Three images of IRPWA graffiti outside the Royal Hospital on the Falls Road, Belfast: “End the blanket torture of republican POWs – Portlaoise * Maghaberry * England”, “Support the POWs protest Sat Aug 10th 2pm Whiterock Road POW mural”, and “Protest 4 POW status. If you care – you’ll be there “Silence = Complicity” IRPWA.”
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Free The POWs
A vintage ‘green ribbon’ from the campaign (from the mid- to late-1990s) to release republican POWs, still high up on a Falls Road, Belfast, wall. Just out of shot to the left: The Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing.
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Comms
Two of the three comms (“communications”, messages by H-Block prisoners on tobacco paper or toilet paper and smuggled from wing to wing or to the outside) reproduced in this mural describe the decision to undertake the hunger strike (written by Bobby Sands) and the reaction to his death (from Ardoyne man Bik McFarlane to “Brownie” – Gerry Adams). The three describes a beating received by Ardoyne resident and blanket man Brendan McClenaghan.
Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast
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Segregation For Irish POWs
This is the first full mural from the IRPWA in the Collection (after a 2001 flag in Derry and some 2002 writing in Belfast). It calls for segregation in Portlaoise, Maghaberry, and English jails.
Divis Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
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Restore Political Status
Board on Camlough Road, Newry, calling for political status for republican prisoners in Maghaberry. For the bus shelter and the IRA on the lamp-post, on the left, see Bus Shelters Of The Revolution and IRA For the hunger striker/political status board on the right, see Political Status Denied.
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