Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is likened to the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS), perhaps because of Operation Defensive Shield, a reaction to the Second Intifada involving invasions of West Bank cities, which took place under Sharon.
Divis Street, Belfast
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The keffiyeh, familiar from images of PLO leader Yasser Arafat who died in 2004, is joined by barbed wire. The words are in the colours of the Palestinian flag.
Lecky Road, Derry.
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Che Guevara orders the police service out of the Bogside.
Lecky Road, Derry
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“Freedom”. Balata is a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank, near Nablus. The Bogside is a Catholic area of Derry, west of the old city walls. Lecky Road, Derry. “Féıle 20[0]5”, “Up the Celts”.
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Solidarity between Palestine and Ireland is expressed in the form of the Tricolour following the angle of the triangle in the Palestinian flag.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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The Colombia 3 (see Bring Them Home) fled Colombia and returned to Ireland in December 2004, hence the “on tour 2005” addition to this Lake Street, Lurgan, graffiti.
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The Colombia Three are Niall Connolly, James Monaghan and Martin McCauley. By the time of this image, they were already back in Ireland, having fled Colombia in December 2004. For more info, see Bring Them Home.
“The Colombia Three – tried by the media – bring them home”. Edward Street, Lurgan
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M02583 [M02588 for the same board in Levin Road, Lurgan]
Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895. “Inspired by two Irishmen to escape from slavery Frederick Douglass came to Ireland during the famine. Henceforth he championed the abolition of slavery, women’s rights and Irish freedom.” “Perhaps no class has carried prejudice against colour to a point more dangerous than have the Irish and yet no people have been more relentlessly oppressed on account of race and religion. (Also by Douglass, and which would have made an apt quote for the mural: “I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”)
Divis Street, Belfast.
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2005 image of the Lawrence–Hamill board on Brompton Park, Belfast, previously seen in 2002.
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