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The Gibraltar Three

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The Gibraltar Three (Maıréad Farrell, Sean Savage, Dan McCann) – “executed by British crown forces in Gibraltar 6th March 1988” – are memorialised with a plaque and the last three verses of Bobby Sands’s Rhythm Of Time: “It is found in every light of hope/It knows no bounds nor space/It has risen in red and black and white/It is there in every race.//It lies in the hearts of heroes dead/It screams in tyrants’ eyes/It has reached the peak of mountains high/It comes searing ‘cross the skies.//It lights the dark of this prison cell/It thunders forth its might/It is the undauntable thought, my friend/That thought that says ‘I’m right!'”

Hawthorn Street, west Belfast

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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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The Women Of 1916

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“This mural is dedicated to the Women of Cumann Na mBan, Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann & Sınn Féın.” Image “from R[uth] Taillon’s book The Women Of 1916.” Taillon is a Canadian who moved to Belfast in 1980 and has been doing work with the women’s movement in the north and on women’s history – see NVTv.w

Hawthorn Street, west Belfast

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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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Draoıchláırseoırí An Chınn Bhaıle

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In Táın Bó Cúaılnge, the “sweet-mouth harpers of Caın Bıle” are also “druids, men of great cunning and great power of augury and magic.” They come to Medb and Aılıll to entertain them, carrying mistletoe by which they sing, but are mistaken as Ulster spies; the harpers turn themselves into deer to escape their pursuers, near the Lıa Mór (Great Stone) (Death Of Lethan). 

Springhill Avenue, west Belfast

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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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INLA Roll Of Honour

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Six INLA volunteers are remembered on a memorial stone in the City Cemetery, Derry. The other memorial is to the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers (“They were ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances whose steadfast resolve, discipline, and unity of purpose prevailed”) and five local “comrades and friends”.

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Copyright © 2000 Peter Moloney
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Ireland Ribbon

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Two images from the Sinn Fein [sic – Sınn Féın] office on the Falls Road, Belfast. A dove (inside a braided circle) carries a tricoloured ribbon. To the right is a list of prisoners, seen previously in 1995’s Sınn Féın Peace Action Monitor.

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Copyright © 1998 Peter Moloney
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Upper Springfield Development Trust

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This is a mural sponsored by and for the Upper Springfield Development Trust (web | until 1993 the Upper Springfield Development Forum) focusing on young people: “Mol an óıge agus tıocfaıdh sí.” (Praise youth/the young and it will flourish.”/”Youth responds to praise.”)

Signed by “Mo Chara” (Gerard “Mo Chara” Kelly) and “Spud” in the bottom right corner.

Whiterock Road, west Belfast

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Copyright © 1997 Peter Moloney
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