The SDLP’s Joe Hendron ran against, and lost to, Gerry Adams in Belfast West in 1987’s UK parliamentary elections. “Say No To Dr. Joe – Vote Adams X”. Whiterock Road, Belfast
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
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A volunteer with rocket-propelled grenade launcher kneels between “Vote Sinn Féin” and “Adams X” and under a variety of election posters, including “Freedom Justice Peace” and “Keep building, says SDLP“. Whiterock Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
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This is the scene at the junction of the Springfield Road with the Whiterock Road and New Barnsley Parade in 1987: kerb-stones painted in green, white, and orange, election posters for Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams (“Working with you”), and “IRA” and “SS RUC” graffiti in the background.
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“Vote Adams”, “SF”. Westrock Drive, Belfast.
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“Vote Sinn Fein” and a Tricolour. With “Victory to the IRA” above. Westrock Drive, Belfast.
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An electoral portrait of Sınn Féın candidate Gerry Adams, against a background of green, white, and orange.
Painted by Mo Chara Kelly.
Westrock Drive, west Belfast
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The Springhill shops with “Vote Sinn Féin” painted between the windows of the upper floors.
Springhill Avenue, Belfast.
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Electioneering graffiti in Springhill Avenue, Belfast.
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“Keep building says SDLP. Don’t keep building say the people of South Armagh” (referring to British Army installations). “Saoırse Ceart Síocháın”/”Freedom Justice Peace”, and a hand-painted “Tıocfıadh Ár Lá” and Tricolour and Sunburst flags on crossed pikes, with an armalite. Sinn Féin election posters and republican symbols in Springhill Avenue, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
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This repainting of a 1986 mural in AMCOMRI Street, Belfast, whitewashes the SF logo from the middle of the Tricolour and much of the graffiti in the surround painted out.
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