“HMP Maghaberry = Stormonts’ best kept secret. “Where ’81 never happened” – 32CSM” and a list of “Six County POWs”. First appearance of both 32CSM (32-county Sovereignty Movement) and IRPWA (Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association).
Whiterock Road, west Belfast
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” … but not the revolution”. Images of a modern IRA volunteer, hero of the 1916 Rising James Connolly (both painted by Mo Chara), Zapata, and a member of the United Farm Workers (both painted by Rubén Ortiz-Torres from the University of California, San Diego). Also, a phoenix and a Mexican eagle, and the colours of Ireland and Mexico. Dedicated to the San Patricios, an Irish battalion in the Mexican-American war.
Ballymurphy Road, west Belfast
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Here are two images from Twinbrook Road, Belfast, one of a hunger strike 20th anniversary board with portraits of the ten deceased men and a lark carrying keys in a circle of barbed wire and the other showing “IRA” in green, white, and orange letters.
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“Republican Sınn Féın demands political status for all republican POWs NOW”. Vintage imagery, of a blanket man and of a 1981 trio of IRA volunteers with weapons, used in an RSF board in Divis Street, Belfast.
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“Saoırse [freedom] – Free the prisoners” (somewhere on) Falls Road, Belfast.
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Two armed and masked volunteers hold aloft an RPG, claiming “victory”, even though “our day” is still coming (tıocfaıdh ár lá). This is a crude version of the 1982 PLO -IRA mural in Belfast, but the direct ancestor of this board is the similar one – Victory – on Eastway, Derry, from 2000.
Please get in touch if you know what “BCRF” stands for. “CRF” (by itself) stands for “Catholic Reaction Force”. So, perhaps “Bogside Catholic reaction Force”? Or Bogside-Creggan Reaction Force”?
Fahan Street, Derry
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“1980” is included with “1981” for the twentieth anniversary of the hunger strikes, with portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers.
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“1981-2001: The struggle for political status. Republican Sınn Féın”. Photos of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers in the shape of an “H”.
Falls Road, west Belfast
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‘Green ribbon’ mural in Lecky Road, Derry, with “saoırse” over a Tricolour down both sides.
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Copyright © 1998 Peter Moloney
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Two lightpole boards on Moneynick Road, Toome: “Vote Meehan No. 1” and a prisoner behind bars. Also, an ad for The Wolfe Tones “appearing open air at the Battery Moortown, Sun 12th July.”
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Copyright © 1998 Peter Moloney
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