“Support the prisoner candidate” – former PIRA volunteer and CIRA leader Tommy Crossan stood from Maghaberry Prison as a RSF candidate for West Belfast in 2001 (Éıre Nua) and urged voters to “spoil your vote” – see the posters on the wall; also Bennie et al p. 59).
In 2014 he would be killed after his expulsion from CIRA – see RIP Vol Tommy Crossan.
Divis Street, west Belfast
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“Vótail Sinn Féin 1 2 3 4”. Free Derry Corner, Lecky Road, Derry
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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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Graffiti on the side of the Falls library, perhaps relating to the May 30th, 1996 Forum elections.
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Two boards in Welsh Street, south Belfast: “Vote Sınn Féın’s [Seán] Hayes. Keep the Orange Order out. May 21st No. 1” and “93% Protestant, 100% Unionist – Disband the RUC.” The figure on the left is a three-in-one RUC officer, Orange Order member, and loyalist paramilitary. Hayes was elected fourth from the Laganbank district, taking a seat from the SDLP.
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Two Sınn Féın stencils. In the larger one, Scotland becomes a British pick axe, splitting Ireland – overwritten with the word “peace” – in two.
Lecky Road [and Rosemount Avenue], Derry
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Foyle Road, Derry.
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The people break out of a barracks and become a tree. “Vote Sınn Féın.”
Back of Free Derry Corner (Visual History)
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“Vote Sınn Féın – the people’s voice”.
Small board in Lecky Road, Derry
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Voting for Sınn Féın will give unionists the sense of dread depicted in Edvard Munch’s The Scream.
Kells Walk, Derry
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