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Freedom

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“Freedom: For freedom you fasted & died/For the five rights you were denied/For the evil we know to blame/For England shrouded in shame/For the deaths of young Irish lives/For the oath of a country that cried/For the murder of a lark in the sky.” This poem seems to be unique in Irish muraling – if you know anything about it, please leave a comment. The sword with wings appears to be the insignia of the SAS, but its presence in this is inexplicable; the harp might be taking a poke at it. Fountain Street, Strabane.

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1916 Easter 1986

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Here is the top half of a mural in Berwick Road/Paráid An Ardghleanna. The board at the top reproduces a 1972 postcard entitled Easter with two women – on the left a young woman (Ireland in flames, perhaps suggesting the Rising) and on the right, an old woman (Mother Ireland?) – watching over a prisoner by the light from a prison window. (Image #39 in Belinda Loftus’s 1982 dissertation Images In Conflict.)

The bottom (with quotes from Connolly and Pearse) was seen in the 1989 image An Attitude Of Revolt.

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Freedom’s Sons

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Here are two images of a mural from the bottom of the Falls Road (where the Garden Of Remembrance now is) showing a striding volunteer with raised rifle. The mural would later be modified to specify the unit as “D coy, 2nd batt, Belfast Brigade [IRA]” – see M00802.

Falls Road, west Belfast

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An Attitude Of Revolt

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Tricoloured quotations from James Connolly and Patrick Pearse below the image of a kneeling volunteer with RPG launcher: “The great appear great because we are on our knees – let us rise” and “As long as Ireland is unfree, the only [honourable] attitude for Irishmen and [Irish]women is an attitude of revolt.”

Berwick Road/Paráıd An Ardghleanna, Ardoyne/Ard Eoın, north Belfast.

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