The Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) is a left-leaning unionist party founded in 1979 by Hugh Smyth, who served as Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1994. His successor as leader of the party (in 2002) was former UVF member David Ervine, who had been elected to the NI Assembly in 1998 but would die in January 2007.
Newtownards Road, Belfast
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These two “Join Sınn Féın” boards are above the Sınn Féın office on the Falls Road, Belfast. “Don’t wish for a united Ireland, work for it.”The second, with portraits of Pearse, Carney, and Sands, is an example of the Irish-language rights campaign which becomes a central policy around this time: Is í athgabháıl na Gaeılge athgabháıl na hÉıreann [the repossession of Irish is the repossession of Ireland]. (See previously Cearta Teanga, Cearta Daonna.)
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DUP [Democratic Unionist Party] constituency office in Charles Street, Ballymoney. The office was opened in 2004 (Ballymoney Times). The lion was first used as the DUP’s emblem in 2001.
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Graffiti on the Whiterock Road, west Belfast.
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“This is the Sinn Fein commitment to the peace process: guns from Florida, training FARC rebels, Castlereagh break-in [the chef is Larry Zaitschek but see Independent and Guardian], Stormont spy-ring [Stormontgate].”
Boundary Way, lower Shankill, west Belfast
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“British government guilty of electoral fraud. 211,000 denied their vote. Are you one of them? An bhfuıl tusa ına measc? Register now – Cláraıgh anoıs.” For a wide shot of the scene, see X00119.
Havana Way, north Belfast
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“Saoırse, ceart, agus síocháın” (“Freedom, justice, and peace”). Sınn Féın electoral board on Falls Road/Linden Street. 2005 was the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party.
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This Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) mural is an extremely rare example of a loyalist electoral mural. For another PUP mural, see C00952.
Dee Street, east Belfast
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Sinn Féin councillor Joe O’Donnell (elected in the Pottinger district in 2001) became deputy mayor of Belfast City Council in 2004 (An Phoblacht article). He is lampooned in loyalist Cluan Place, Belfast, as “Deputy Dog [Deputy Dawg]”. See also: NVTv interview with O’Donnell.
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In 2004, Sınn Féın took the third European parliament seat from the SDLP. This election board for candidate Baırbe de Brún – with support from Gerry Adams – is on the Whiterock Road, Belfast.
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