Five panels in a row in Innisfree Gardens, Strabane: (1) the shield of the four provinces, (2) a phoenix with “Out of the ashes rose the provisionals” (3) Ireland unfree shall never be at peace (seen in 1989), (4) “Honour Ireland’s dead” with a Celtic cross and Easter lily, (5) “Armed struggle” and “Resistance 1916-1989” and three armed volunteers.
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Manacles “Made in Britain” constrain the republican desire for a united Ireland, contrary to the burning GPO and rising phoenix.
The close-up image shows the plaque to local (A Company 2nd Battalion) IRA volunteers: Stan Carberry, Frankie Dodds, Paul Fox, Sean Bailey, Paul Marlowe, Tony Campbell. Painted by Mo Chara Kelly in Beechmount Avenue.
“Fuaır sıad bás ar son na hÉıreann”, “Ireland unfree will never be at peace”.
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Here are two faded panels (the first and last) from the four shown in Ireland’s Cross To Bear.
Beechmount Avenue, Belfast
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“… but employs the argument of force.” Mural against the censorship of Sinn Féin, painted by Mo Chara at the Springhill Avenue, Belfast
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A tricoloured island of Ireland carries a rifle.
Ballycolman, Strabane.
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The words “repatriation for Irish POW” were later added to this mural in Ballycolman, Strabane. But the prisoner in question, perhaps shown in the centre of the flag and in close-up in the second image, is unknown.
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Silhouette of a republican paramilitary holding a Thompson sub-machine-gun, attempting to win freedom for a tricoloured Ireland encircled by barbed wire. Ballycolman, Strabane.
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First of four in a row in Ballycolman, Strabane: Jack Clafferty’s famous Troops Out emblem of Britain in the shape of a riot policeman bludgeoning Ireland (this Ireland is holding a ‘self-determination’ placard). For the original, see Sasanach Amach.
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The hand of Ireland catches the hand of Britain in the act of ripping a tricoloured Northern Ireland from the island of Ireland. Blood drips from the severed six counties, as well as from the British limb.
Also seen in 1990.
For the same idea in Belfast, see Stad Maggie Anoıs.
Townsend Street, Strabane.
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A large Tricolour and the words of Padraig Pearse next to the island of Ireland with the letters “SF”. Westrock Drive, Belfast
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